Praise for Learning to Talk:
‘It is in sparkling writing such as this that the truth is told…these stories are a maverick vision of growing up acute and disenchanted in the north in the mid-20th century’
PENELOPE LIVELY, Sunday Telegraph
‘Mercilessly funny’
Daily Telegraph
‘Like VS Naipaul, Mantel writes with an undeceived eye and a sly, waspish intelligence…a very fine work’
Evening Standard
‘Funny and elegant’
ELAINE SHOWALTER, Guardian
‘Mantel gets more adventurous, and better and better, as she goes’
Financial Times
‘Both challenging and brilliant’
TLS