![]() His sedulous enabling of the murderous capriciousness of his boss is magnificently realized in Mantel's prose and at all times this is a gripping tale no matter how well you already know the historical events it describes.īefore Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography of Cromwell, these works from Mantel were some of the strongest biographical work available on this elusive figures, even if they were realized in dramatized fashion. Having seen the ascendance of Thomas Cromwell to the position of Master Secretary to Henry VIII through his dutiful machinations in legitimizing the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn, spoiler alert, its now his job, as chronicled in this volume, to undo that very marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Volume 2 in the Wolf Hall trilogy, "Bring up the Bodies," is everything its illustrious predecessor is and continues Hilary Mantel's tripartite masterpiece of historical fiction. ![]()
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