
Hilary Mantel
TALKING POLITICS
We Still Have Ghosts in Our Politics
We are haunted still. It feels a bit like jeremy cobin haunts politics. And they're still here, and they pop ups. The ghosts are circulating faster and faster. Theyre really nimble and fleet. For jus st ye and its it. I would love to write a novel about peter warbeck, but i can't cope with he corto cal percan sora sit o it. Abro er wrote a brilliant book about this particular pretender. She too had thought the novel form, with its slipperiness and ambiguity, is perfect for this. Henry's story is so modern, and it's so distant, because death is real. But
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