2017-04-11

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2017-04-11 06:31 pm
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2017/31: Bring Up the Bodies -- Hilary Mantel

2017/31: Bring Up the Bodies -- Hilary Mantel
'Strike first, before she strikes you. Remember how she brought down Wolsey.' His past lies about him like a burnt house. He has been building, building, but it has taken him years to sweep up the mess.


Second in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy: I wonder when the third volume will appear.

I didn't like this as much as Wolf Hall: it seemed overlong, a detailed examination of the fall of Anne Boleyn and the rise of Jane Seymour. spoilery for history )