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Derbyshire wins the Booker Prize! Find!
I don't think we've had a mention yet for distinguished Derbyshire author Hilary Mantel, whose novel Wolf Hall has just won the 2009 Man Booker Prize.Mantel was born in Glossop and grew up in Hadfield. I'm not sure how how much her home county has been the inspiration for her writing, but her earlier novel Fludd is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton...
8 October 2009 from Stephen Booth
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Nice one, Stephen! and a very worthy winner; I love her novels. Hilary's autobiographical memoir Giving up the Ghost, published in 2003, draws vividly on her Derbyshire childhood growing up, as you say, in a small rural community. It's a brilliant, funny and moving book. All the best for now, Priscilla