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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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Hilary Mary Thompson
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
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