giving up the ghost

But she wasn’t giving up the ghost so easily.

My parched foundation is giving up the ghost.

The Ukrainians are not “giving up the ghost,” the official said.

“The story of my childhood is a complicated sentence that I’m always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me,” she wrote in “Giving up the Ghost,” her 2003 memoir.

In 2003, she published a widely praised memoir, “Giving Up the Ghost,” that addressed Ms. Mantel’s physical ailments and her loss of religious faith.