The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters…

The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

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Overcoming adversity

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Historical literature

Medium

Novel

Time

2012

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Hilary Mantel

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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