Hilary Mantel has seen sales of her award-winning novels soar after making headlines worldwide by describing the Duchess of Cambridge as “painfully thin, shop window mannequin”.
Mantel, who has won the Man Booker Prize twice, said the Duchess had a
"perfect plastic smile", being viewed as having “no personality of her own,
entirely defined by what she wore”.
Her remarks, made as part of a lecture entitled Royal Bodies,
have been widely publicised across the
globe and have already been condemned by Prime Minister David Cameron.
While she has not yet commented on the furore, Mantel will no doubt be
pleased to hear of one positive side-effect, as sales of her book have rocketed.
Wolf Hall, the first of her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, has
already shot up the Amazon book charts, with sales more than doubling in the
last 24 hours.
It has risen from 15th place to 7th, up 200 per cent, with sales of the
sequel Bring Up the Bodies also seeing a significant increase of 69 per cent.
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