A review by jessicarc88
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

3.0

I think there's a good chance that I'm not really one for short stories. Here's the thing: Mantel's stories were interesting. But they were brief glimpses into the lives of different people. You didn't really get to know them. I think I need the plot development. But, Mantel's characters were interesting; their situations unique. Every story seemed to cover a person when they were not at their best: a father leaving his family for his secretary, a man being caught cheating on his wife, a woman leaving a crippled girl in a creepy hotel, a couple fighting over having children, a hostage watching an assassination attempt, a family dealing with an eating disorder. But with such brief glimpses it really is hard to remember at the end of the collection what it was that you just read and learned.