Wolf Hall trilogy author remembered at memorial service at Southwark cathedral on Thursday
Hilary Mantel, the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, was working on a “mashup” of Jane Austen novels when she died suddenly, her literary agent told a packed memorial service at Southwark cathedral on Thursday.
Thursday’s celebration of her life included tributes, readings, music, and film and photographs of the author. Mark Rylance, who played Thomas Cromwell in the television adaptation of the trilogy, read an extract from Wolf Hall, and Ben Miles, who played the character in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation, spoke movingly of Mantel’s “immeasurable gifts”.
In a tribute read on his behalf, Mantel’s brother Brian told how his sister had used her skills as a “natural storyteller” to entertain him with historical tales when he was unwell as a child. Words were to Mantel as the piano was to Mozart or a paintbox to Picasso, he said. As the last surviving member of their nuclear family of five, “I now have memories no one else shares,” he said.
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