Michael Hartford reviewed Learning to talk by Hilary Mantel
This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an …
Learning to Talk
4 stars
Not having read "Giving Up the Ghost," I was a little puzzled by some of these stories, which are ambiguously autobiographical and playfully fictive at once; I'm going to need to read Mantel's memoir now to sort it all out.