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“The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” is a collection of short stories by Hilary Mantel, published in 2014. The title story, “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,” caused controversy due to its provocative title, but it should be noted that the story itself does not depict an actual assassination attempt on the former British prime minister.

HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly transgressive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, ushering concealed horrors into the light. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in ‘Comma’; nurses clash in ‘Harley Street’ over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game.

The collection contains ten stories that explore themes of power, gender, and class. Some of the stories are set in contemporary Britain, while others take place in historical settings. Mantel is known for her historical fiction, but this collection demonstrates her versatility as a writer.

In the title story, a woman with a gun shows up at the narrator’s door, claiming that she has been hired to assassinate Margaret Thatcher. The story explores the complex emotions and political tensions surrounding Thatcher’s time in office, but it is ultimately a work of fiction and not a literal depiction of an assassination attempt.

Other stories in the collection include “Terminus,” in which a woman reflects on her relationship with her terminally ill father, and “Winter Break,” which follows a couple on a vacation to Spain that takes a dark turn.

Overall, “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” is a thought-provoking collection of stories that showcases Mantel’s talent for crafting vivid and compelling narratives. The stories are often unsettling and challenging, but they are also deeply insightful and rewarding for readers who are willing to engage with them.

Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road on a Greek island, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Displaying all of Mantel’s unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers.

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“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.”

“My migraine aura was now so severe that the world on the left had ceased to exist, except as an intermittent yellow flash.”

“Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.”

“I remembered the young man with his broad white smile and his ashen hair streaked with gold; the basted perfection of his firm flesh, and the grace of his hand clasping mine. I slotted the notes back inside, slid my purse away, and wondered: which of my defects did he notice first?”

“I felt a wish to be fictionalized.”

“The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

“In the end, Dr Bhattacharya had said, the heart fails without warning.”

“She held out her hands in a curve around herself, to show how emotion distends you. It makes you feel full up, a big weight in your chest, and then you don’t want your dinner.”

“Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead.”

“A shock will do it, he said, or strong emotion, strong emotion of any sort. It can be horror. Or disgust. But, then again, it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes, he said, people die laughing.”

“He was, in all, so clean, so sweet, so golden, that I backed off, afraid he must be American and about to convert me to some cult.”

“I see that both the living and the dead commute, riding their familiar trains. I am not, as you will have gathered, a person who needs false excitement, or simulated innovation. I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

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