'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' Is Hilary Mantel's Gamechanger — elle.com

In England the harvest is being brought in. Hilary Mantel is sitting in an armchair in her agent's office in London's Gray's Inn, where five centuries earlier Thomas Cromwell likely had his chambers. She's wearing a cornflower-blue dress scattered with pink dragonflies. Her hair is the color of ripe wheat. She has for most of her adult life been either in pain or fearful of pain's return, but for the past six months she has enjoyed an unprecedented spell of health. Her face is no longer swollen by steroids, and the most striking aspect of her appearance now is her enormous, uncannily blue eyes.

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