Wolf Hall
By Hilary Mantel 2019-03-19 21:14:32
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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose hi... Read more

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the king''s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. The son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power, and is preparing to break some more. Rising from personal disaster - the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron - he picks his way deftly through a court where -man is wolf to man.'' Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry''s desires.

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, Wolf Hall re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

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  • 8.2x5.4x1.3inches
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  • Picador; First edition (August 31, 2010)
  • August 1, 2010
  • English
  • 9780312429980
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE, FRSL (6 July 1952) is a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize. She is als...
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