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WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL
BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king
dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil
war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and
marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. 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. But Henry is
volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him
break the opposition, but what will be the price of his
triumph?
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Hilary Mantel is the author of Wolf Hall, winner of the 2009
Man Booker Prize. She is also the author of A Change of Climate, A
Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An
Experiment in Love, The Giant, O''Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every
Day Is Mother''s Day, and Vacant Possession. She has also written a
memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she
reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and
the London Review of Books. She lives in England.
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