![]() ![]() When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.īook 3 – Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. ![]() Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?īook 2 – Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. ![]() Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. ![]() If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. ![]()
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