Daunt Books

The reliably brilliant sequel to Mantel's Booker-winning Wolf Hall. In Bring Up The Bodies, we are thrust into violent absolutism. On encountering Jane Seymour, Henry begins to doubt his relationship with Anne Boleyn, and Cromwell is ordered to conclude her story. As in Wolf Hall, Mantel pulls off the risky trick of present-tense narration; as we hurtle towards the inevitable end, our narrator is the only person who can't see it coming.

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