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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 Click to view extract
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rosalindwinter
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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?
******************************************************************************** Scias te fortasse Romanum esse si ... discrimen apud te recentissimum tumultus fuerit servilis (Henricus Barbatus)
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Panurge3000
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Just started it. I love it so far. I would read Hilary Mantel's shopping lists...
Elsewhere...
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rosalindwinter
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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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rosalindwinter
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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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youngun
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Yes, rosalindwinter, we're all totally interested in the kind of crap you think is right on.
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rosalindwinter
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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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