![]() ![]() His life takes a tragic turn when his wife and two daughters abruptly die of the sweating sickness, leaving him a widower. In 1500, the teenage Thomas Cromwell runs away from home to flee his abusive father, and seeks his fortune in France as a soldier.īy 1527 the well-travelled Cromwell has returned to England and is now a lawyer, a married father of three, and is highly respected as the right-hand man of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, with a stellar reputation for deal-making. The last book in the trilogy is The Mirror and the Light (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life. The book is the first in a trilogy the sequel Bring Up the Bodies was published in 2012. ![]() In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels". The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. ![]()
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