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"People's lives have become uncomfortable and insecure, and their future has been taken away," says one character in this expertly crafted collection from two-time Booker Prize winner Mantel, whose loosely autobiographical stories capture ground-down 1960s Britain. Still, Mantel doesn't focus on financial stress or even the stubborn snobbery revealed in the title story, whose young heroine has landed a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More