Eight Months on Ghazzah Street: A Novel

EIGHT MONTHS ON GHAZZAH STREET. Copyright © 1988 by Hilary Mantel.

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First published in the United Kingdom by Viking

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company, LLC

First Picador Edition: September 2003

Designed by Paula R. Szafranski

eISBN 9781429900614

First eBook Edition : June 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mantel, Hilary.

Eight months on Ghazzah Street: a novel / by Hilary Mantel.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-42289-X

I. Title.

PR6063.A438E35 1997

823'.914—dc21

96-49819 CIP