The Shift With Sam Baker

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"Every part of my body hurt"

After years of pain, the double-Booker Prize winning novelist Hilary Mantel was diagnosed with endometriosis. But her diagnosis came too late to save her fertility

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Oct 19, 2023
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Hilary Mantel at Gray’s Inn, 2017. Pic by Richard Ansett

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