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The novel opens in the year 1500 in the small town of Putney, England, where young Thomas Cromwell is being cruelly beaten up by his father, Walter, who is a drunk and the town’s blacksmith. The beatings take place often, and this time, Walter almost kills him.
Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Hilary Mantel
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- 2009
- 30 April 2009
Hillary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is the first in a trilogy of historical novels depicting life in the court of King Henry VIII. The story takes place in England during the tumultuous 1520s, and is told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, one of the king’s most trusted advisors.
Wolf Hall tells the story of how Thomas Cromwell, the son of a blacksmith, rises to power to become one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in King Henry VIII's court. While it contains many flashbacks and begins in 1500, it mainly concerns the years 1527–35, from the meeting of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn , to the execution ...
Apr 30, 2009 · 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 opposes him.
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May 1, 2009 · Law and financial administration - his main activities - don't always ignite writers' imaginations, and in the pop-Foucauldian worldview of much historical fiction since the 1980s, his...
