Psychics, mediums, spirit guides, ghosts – and child abuse.
The New York Times review is excellent.
Publisher page: Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel
Author: Hilary Mantel
Bring Up The Bodies – Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall sees Thomas Cromwell manage the machinations to bring about the downfall of Anne Boylen and positioning of Jane Seymour as Henry VIII’s third queen. The style took me a while to adjust to, but, as with Wolf Hall, once I’d tuned in to Cromwell’s narrative, I was hooked. Borrowed from Janette and read over the bitterly cold Easter break in Walton on the Naze.
Publisher’s page: Bring Up The Bodies – Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk: Short stories – Hilary Mantel
A slim book of short stories by Hilary Mantel, possibly (semi)autobiographical? Quick to read, and left me a bit cold.
Nothing at all like Wolf Hall.
Amazon.co.uk link: Learning to Talk: Short stories – Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Fabulous telling of the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell, and the people and politics at play in the court of Henry VIII: the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, the rise of Anne Boleyn, the break with Rome.
Amazon.co.uk link: Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel