To Celebrate Wolf Hall, TV Drama Adaptation Starring Mark Rylance and Damien Lewis- My Reviews of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy – reblog

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Book Reviews: Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy

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I'm a writer of psychological, paranormal and mystery fiction and non-fiction. My nonfiction books 'Paranormal Warwickshire', 'Illustrated Tales of Warwickshire' and 'A-Z of Warwick' are published by Amberley Publishing. Find all my published books here: https://amzn.to/2UktQ6x

2 thoughts on “To Celebrate Wolf Hall, TV Drama Adaptation Starring Mark Rylance and Damien Lewis- My Reviews of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy – reblog”

  1. Well done for reading Hilary Mantel. I am finding the TV series interesting but I do really have to concentrate hard. She isn’t the easiest reader to grasp, or perhaps, as you suggest, she is just dealing with complicated subject matter.

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    1. Thank you for your comment. Yes I agree the subject is complex but as I am a keen student of history (and particularly that era in English history!) I can follow the TV adaptation well & grasp all the issues at stake & the relationships & situations.

      Re. the books themselves they are initially challenging to read, and I know several readers who have tried and given up. The most difficult thing for me at first was to realise that whenever Mantel writes ‘he’ she means Thomas Cromwell. She never repeats his name : we are to read the books as if we were right inside his mind.

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