Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel's stunning new novel set in Tudor England which takes us on a journey behind scenes of the reign of Henry VIII, one of the most turbulent periods of British History.
The story of Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of the arch-fixer, but solid, Thomas Cromwell, who gambled his life to win the king's favour and eventually rose up from being a blacksmiths son, to being the most powerful man in England after the king. Cromwell is an opportunist, ambitious and also a skilled politician who helps Henry to break the opposition. But what will be the price of his triumph be in a society where success can bring unlimited power but a single failure means death?
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