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The ending, the book of prayer, did you have to be dead to be in it?

Joyce No. It was a book in a church, where you could write names of your loved ones to be prayed for. Emma writes most of the family members' names in the b…moreNo. It was a book in a church, where you could write names of your loved ones to be prayed for. Emma writes most of the family members' names in the book the first time she goes to the church (in the opening of the book). She goes back in the end and writes in the name no one had spoken: Matthew-- the forgotten, but not forgotten, family member(less)

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Why are the lines from W.H. Auden's poem "As I Walked Out One Morning" attributed to Hilary Mantel? Her character Emma remembers the lines from Auden's poem. While they appear early on in the novel, it is misleading and inaccurate to post them as a quote here.

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