![]() Her novels include Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), set in Jeddah Fludd (1989), set in a mill village in the north of England and winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the Cheltenham Prize and the Southern Arts Literature Prize A Place of Greater Safety (1992), an epic account of the events of the French revolution that won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award A Change of Climate (1994), the story of a missionary couple whose lives are torn apart by the loss of their child and An Experiment in Love (1995), about the events in the lives of three schoolfriends from the north of England who arrive at London University in 1970, winner of the 1996 Hawthornden Prize. ![]() In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an article about Jeddah, and she was film critic for The Spectator from 1987 to 1991. She was employed as a social worker, and lived in Botswana for five years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia, before returning to Britain in the mid-1980s. She studied Law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. ![]() ![]() Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952. ![]()
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