"Hilary Mantel's controversial 2014 fictional story is ""The Assassination of (Which controversial leader?)"" ?"
Hilary Mantel like spectators at Bedlam. Cheerful curiosity can easily become cruelty." These remarks caused much controversy. The Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband and Prime Minister David Cameron criticised them, while Jemima Khan and Hadley Freeman defended Mantel. In September 2014, in an interview published in "The Guardian", Mantel confessed to fantasizing about the murder of Margaret Thatcher in 1983, and fictionalized the event in a short story called "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: 6 August 1983". In the interview she expands on her hatred for the former British prime minister. Allies of Thatcher called for a police investigation, to which
Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel "Wolf Hall", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel "Bring Up the Bodies", the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G.