Giving Up the Ghost: A memoir Alan Garner People premieres at the National

People premieres at the National Theatre

Sanctuary to some but nightmare to others

But he must survive

award-winning author of The Society for Soulless Girls

photographs of her body at the crime-scene suggest a ritual sacrifice

Giving Up the Ghost: A memoir Alan Garner People premieres at the NationalLike Lorna Sage's Bad Blood, Giving Up the Ghost is a story of childhood that is also a piece of history. A masterpiece. Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is award winning novelist Hilary Mantel's wry, shocking and beautifully written autobiography. It opens in 1995 with A Second Home, in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood. Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her