Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell runs from a brutal blacksmith father as a boy, fights for the French and learns law and languages abroad. By the late 1520s he is back in England, a lawyer with a family and the trusted right hand of Cardinal Wolsey, who has been charged with securing an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon. When Wolsey fails and falls from favour, Cromwell, clever, charming, ruthless and expert at reading people, steps into the gap. He wins the confidence of the king and of Anne Boleyn, joins the royal council and pushes his reforms through a self-interested parliament, while Thomas More holds fast to the old Church that Henry is turning against.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom, 1500–1535

Series

Wolf Hall Trilogy, book 1 · book 2: Bring Up the Bodies

First published

2009

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9780805080681 (Henry Holt, United States)

9780007230181 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

9780312429980 (Picador, United States)

9780008749552 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

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