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Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's sequel to Wolf Hall
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 10 May 2012, 18:29 #149534 Reply To Post
It's 1535 and Henry VIII and his court are at Wolf Hall, home of the Seymours. Thomas Cromwell has just returned from a hunting trip with the king. This is the beginning of the much-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall, to be published on May 10

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rosalindwinter
 15 May 2012, 09:11 #150059 Reply To Post
So frustrating! I'm first on the list for this at my local library, which still doesn't have a copy, nearly a week after publication.
Has anyone else got hold of it yet? Does it live up to the opening chapters?
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si ... discrimen apud te recentissimum tumultus fuerit servilis (Henricus Barbatus)
Panurge3000
 16 May 2012, 16:22 #150205 Reply To Post
Just started it. I love it so far. I would read Hilary Mantel's shopping lists...
Elsewhere...
rosalindwinter
 20 May 2012, 09:14 #150380 Reply To Post
I'm re-reading Wolf Hall while waiitng for the new book, and I'm stunned by HM's use of language. First time round, I completely missed the point of the intensive third person, even though it had the effect she intended - I just didn't realise that was how she was doing it, and whinged about the occasional incidental ambiguity. Now I'm reading with special attention to exactly how she gets her effects, and it's quite dazzling - for example, she doesn't just manage to mix past and present tense narration, but there's even a passage of future tense narration, something I've never come across before.
And I'd love to read those shopping lists when you're done with them, Lee.
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si ... discrimen apud te recentissimum tumultus fuerit servilis (Henricus Barbatus)
rosalindwinter
 09 Jun 2012, 22:11 #151362 Reply To Post
Just finished "Bring up the Bodies" - even better than "Wolf Hall," I think. How on earth does she manage to make the story so suspenseful when you know how it ends?
This post was last edited by rosalindwinter, 09 Jun 2012, 22:12
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si ... discrimen apud te recentissimum tumultus fuerit servilis (Henricus Barbatus)
youngun
 29 Jul 2012, 11:12 #153789 Reply To Post
Yes, rosalindwinter, we're all totally interested in the kind of crap you think is right on.
rosalindwinter
 01 Aug 2012, 22:37 #154033 Reply To Post
What an extraordinary post. If you think Hilary Mantel's writing is crap, and you're not interested in what I might have to say, then why waste your time reading this thread, let alone responding to it? (and on behalf of everybody, too - that's rather presumptuous of you, or did you really check with "we all" first?).
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Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si ... discrimen apud te recentissimum tumultus fuerit servilis (Henricus Barbatus)
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