Complete the text using the past simple form ofthe verbs in brackets Hilary Mantel is an author. Her name was Hilary Thompson when she was born in1952, but she (1) ____________(change) it to Hilary Mantel, her stepfather’s surname. Her real father left home when she was eleven she (2) ____________(not see) him again. She (3) ____________ (write) her first two books in 1985 and 1986, but they (4) ____________ (not be) very popular. She (5) ____________ (not have) the same problem with her nextbook, A Place of Greater Safety. It’s about three men who (6) ____________ (be) important during the French Revolution.Nowadays, Mantel usually writes about lives from the past. Her book WolfHall is very good, and it (7) ____________(win) prizes when it came out. How long (8) ____________(she/spend) writing it? She says she (9) ____________(spend) five years and she (10)____________ (be) scared of forgetting all the names. She used cards to remember all the characters.