![]() ![]() The known facts are amplified by what could have happened, what was possible, what was likely. We enter into him, thinking with his mind seeing with his eyes The details are provided by Hilary Mantel's immaculate and meticulously detailed research which is reflected through the mirror of her imagination and ruthlessly and perfectly tailored to the tale. The unusual use of the third person present tense, allowing the reader to be simultaneously both inside and outside his consciousness, brought him roaring into life. ![]() As a refresher course for when I score a copy of the last in the trilogy. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy changed my view of him instantly and forever. I loved the book at first-read, the first in the Wolf Hall trilogy and with the recent publication of Mantels 'The Mirror and the Light', decided to re-read in sequence the Wolf Hall books. But worse than that, he was an uninteresting, shadowy, backroom figure, as colourless as his Holbein portrait, which might as well be in black and white. Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. For me, Thomas Cromwell was a soulless bureaucrat, ruthless and machiavellian, responsible for the destruction of the monasteries and the death of Anne Boleyn. I studied Tudor history for 'A' level and at university. ![]()
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