Hilary Mantel — Every Day Is Mother&Apos;S Day

London, Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A smart first impression of the debut novel by Hilary Mantel, a black comedy set in 1970s suburban England. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A black comedy tale of suburban mayhem, the novel is set in the mid 1970s, and begins when a widowed spiritualist discovers that her mentally-handicapped daughter is pregnant.This is the debut novel of Hilary Mantel, who won the Booker Prize twice for two volumes in her Cromwell trilogy. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Blind stamp of Jocelyn Mahon to the front endpaper. Minor edge wear and a couple of light handling marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a touch age-toned, as is usual with this work, and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.