Bring Up the Bodies
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Published in 2012, Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies returns to the court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell has secured the King’s marriage to Anne Boleyn but now finds himself charged with bringing it to an end. Set in 1535–36, the novel follows the gathering tensions between Henry, Anne and the increasingly influential Jane Seymour, as Cromwell manoeuvres through a court where affection, ambition and political survival are perilously entwined. With the King desperate for a male heir and Anne’s position weakening, Cromwell must construct a case against the Queen, turning rumour and suspicion into instruments of state power.
The second volume of Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, following Wolf Hall, this is a novel about the making of history as much as its consequences. Mantel gives extraordinary psychological depth to Cromwell, whose intelligence and political instincts are inseparable from the moral compromises of his rise. Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, Bring Up the Bodies is a masterful portrait of power, complicity and the precariousness of favour in Tudor England.
From the book
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
— Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
On Bring Up the Bodies
“Tudor times are brought to vivid life again in this brilliant sequel to Wolf Hall.”
— Frances Wilson, The Guardian