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Category: October Highlights 2009
| Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the the inaugural £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Th
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the the inaugural £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man who rose from a blacksmith's son in Putney to be the most powerful man in England after the king. The cast also includes Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and Henry's other wives - and, of course, King Henry himself. It was a time when a half-made society was making itself with great passion and suffering and courage; a time when those involved in the art of the possible were servants to masters only interested in glorious gestures; a time when the very idea of social progress, and of a better world, was fresh, alien and threatening. It was a time of men who weren't like us, but who were creating us.
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