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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 674 pages

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Review

‘This is a beautiful and profoundly human book, a dark mirror held up to our own world. And the fact that its conclusion takes place after the curtain has fallen only proves that Hilary Mantel is one of our bravest as well as our most brilliant writers.’ Olivia Laing, Observer

‘As soon as I opened the book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop. When I did have to put it down, I was full of regret that the story was over, a regret I still feel. This is a wonderful and intelligently imagined retelling of a familiar tale from an unfamiliar angle.’ The Times

‘Mantel is a writer who sees the skull beneath the skin, the worm in the bud, the child abuse in the suburbs and the rat in the mattress…Turning her attention to Tudor England, she makes that world at once so concrete you can smell the rain-drenched wool cloaks…This is a splendidly ambitious book…I wait greedily for the sequel, but “Wolf Hall” is already a feast.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A compelling and humane investigation of the cost of ambition.’ Guardian

‘Mantel’s ability to pick out vivid scenes from sources and give them life within her fiction is quite exceptional…Vividly alive.’ London Review of Books

‘A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can’t think of anything since “Middlemarch” which so convincingly builds a world.’ Diana Athill

About the Author

Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of thirteen books, including ‘A Place of Greater Safety’, ‘Giving Up the Ghost’, ‘Beyond Black’, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize, ‘Wolf Hall’, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and, forthcoming in 2012, its sequel ‘Bring up the Bodies’.