Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel · 2009 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

In the 1520s Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son who has survived a violent boyhood and a career as a soldier and merchant abroad, rises in Cardinal Wolsey's service, and then to Henry VIII's. As the king seeks to divorce Katherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, Cromwell becomes indispensable. Told in a close present tense that follows him alone, it won the Booker Prize and began a trilogy.

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