Hilary Mantel: 'I haven’t had the ordinary markers of a woman’s life'

telegraph.co.uk:

The Mirror & the Light for the stage, in collaboration with the actor and writer Ben Miles (who played Cromwell in the 2014 RSC adaptation, and who reads the audiobook).‘I think your characters just take a step back.

But they never really leave the room, you can always summon them. It’s as if when you finish a book you seal it like a time capsule.

And then you can open it and bring them out again.’She will be bringing them out again for the next TV adaptation, and is also working on a book with Miles and his brother Edward, photographing Tudor sites in England.

But lockdown has meant that all these collaborations had to be done by email.They live a quiet life, she and McEwen, not socialising much. ‘We are a very self-contained unit, which.