Wolf hall bring up the bodies6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The delight is in the people, the life, the humanity that Mantel’s language brings to what had been just names before! She invites us into a new and vibrant world populated by some of the most complete people that I have ever met in fiction. If so, what’s the point of reading it? The ending is mapped out by my (somewhat cloudy) GCSE History the plot twists and turns that, say, C. Is that a spoiler? It’s historical, there was never any doubt about the outcome. This book, in which Cromwell is at the height of his powers, charts the fall, trial and execution of Anne Boleyn and her replacement by Jane Seymour. The original book had charted the rise of Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn and the fall from grace of Cardinal Wolsey. It is rare that I anticipate a book as eagerly as this one rare that a sequel can live up to the expectations of the first book rare that historical fiction can grip me quite so intently! But Mantel manages all this in Bring Up The Bodies which, in my opinion, outshines the original Wolf Hall. ![]()
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