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тАШLastly,тАЩ Mr Maddox said, тАШand to conclude our tour, we come to a very special part of the house.тАЩ He paused, to impress on her that she was going to have a treat. тАШPerhaps, Miss Marcella, it may be that in your last situation, the house did not have a panic room?тАЩ
тАШThe School of EnglishтАЩ invites us behind the stucco fa├зade of a Notting Hill mansion where fear and cruelty grip a household.
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.