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

London, Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Hilary Mantel's debut novel, a black comedy based on her own experiences as a social care worker. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.The first novel from Mantel, the author of the best selling and Booker Prize winning Cromwell trilogy: 'Wolf Hall', 'Bring Up the Bodies', and 'The Mirror and the Light&apos.A story of suburban mayhem, the novel is set in the mid 1970s, and begins when a widowed spiritualist discovering that her mentally-handicapped daughter is pregnant. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters due to paper type, as is typical with this work. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.