Hilary Mantel memorial to be held at Southwark Cathedral | Books
A celebration of the Wolf Hall trilogy author Dame Hilary Mantel, who died aged 70 last year, is to take place at Southwark Cathedral next month.Family, friends and colleagues of Mantel will gather in London on 20 April for the memorial event, which will include tributes and readings from the double Booker prize winner’s body of work.“It was a terrible shock to lose Hilary so suddenly last autumn,” said Nicholas Pearson, Mantel’s editor. “The outpouring across the world of literature in the days that followed was a…