Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VI's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power

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 VI wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king's freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

Mantel, Hilary: - Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel is the author of over a dozen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost. In 2014 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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ISBN 13	9780805080681
ISBN 10	0805080686
Title	Wolf Hall
Author	Hilary Mantel
Series	Wolf Hall Trilogy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company
Year published	2009-10-13
Number of pages	560
Prizes	Winner of Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2009, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2009, Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Fiction) 2010, Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (Novel) 2009, Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2010
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