![]() ![]() It’s as if Hilary Mantel has taken all the grandiose, fanciful and essentially beautiful conceits of language that made Wolf Hall such a joy to read and took them even further, creating a dazzling vision of the Tudor court – venal, lustful and gorgeously opulent in the extreme. ![]() Long term readers of this blog will know all about my passionate adoration of Wolf Hall and I would say that its sequel, Bring up the Bodies somehow contrives to be even better. This is, without a doubt, one of the most incredible books I have ever read. ![]() I think it might just have been released tension as the last part of the book, which covers the condemnation and execution of Anne Boleyn was jaw droppingly tense and had me literally holding my breath in shock as I read it. I’m still crying actually – the last line just made me howl and I’m not even sure why. ![]() Well, it took just over a day but I now return having finished Bring up the Bodies. There is a time to smirk behind the hand of cards you have drawn, and there is a time to throw down your purse on the table and say, ‘Thomas Cromwell, you win.'” “There is a time to stand on your dignity, but there is a time to abandon it in the interests of your safety. ![]()
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