Saturday 14 February 2015

Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel

Read in hardback, after reading Wolf Hall, again.

Because I had read it before, I was better able to concentrate on the scheme of revenge that Thomas Cromwell sets in motion against those he holds responsible for the downfall of his mentor, Cardinal Wolesey.

Still haunted by the loss of his wife, and cut off from the comfort of his brief affair with his sister-in-law, Cromwell has been admiring Jane Seymour. But a trip to Wolf Hall during Henry VIII's summer progression means Jane has a new admirer, and Cromwell has a new job - to rid the King of another wife unable to bear him a son, Anne Boleyn.

Still a fantastic book - still waiting for the last book in the trilogy.

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