Wolf Hall
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Winner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail‘Our most brilliant English writer’GuardianEngland, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
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Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Family Trees
Epigraph
I Across the Narrow Sea Putney, 1500
II Paternity 1527
III At Austin Friars 1527
I Visitation 1529
II An Occult History of Britain 1521–1529
III Make or Mar All Hallows 1529
I Three-Card Trick Winter 1529–Spring 1530
II Entirely Beloved Cromwell Spring–December 1530
III The Dead Complain of Their Burial Christmastide 1530
I Arrange Your Face 1531
II ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532
III Early Mass November 1532
I Anna Regina 1533
II Devil's Spit Autumn and winter 1533
III A Painter's Eye 1534
I Supremacy 1534
II The Map of Christendom 1534–1535
III To Wolf Hall July 1535
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The stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy
AUTHOR'S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
By the Same Author
About the Publisher
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HILARY MANTEL
WOLF HALL
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‘Oh, for sure. As long as I get the right piece of paper from Rome.’
The party smile and hide their smiles. They give each other knowing looks. Gregory says, why is that funny? You can't marry your wife's sister, can you? He and his boy cousins go off into a corner to talk about private subjects – Bet's boys Christopher and Will, Kat's boys Richard and Walter – why did they call that child Walter? Did they need a reminder of their father, lurking around after his death, to remind them not to get too happy? The family never meet but he thanks God that Walter's not with them any more. He tells himself he should have more kindness towards his father, but his kindness extends only to paying for Masses for his soul.
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