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Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
Released: 10/05/2012
Fourth Estate
The much-anticipated sequel to the Man Booker prize-winning Wolf Hall re-imagines the descent of Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth I), who went from Henry VIII's favourite to headless ex-Queen within a few short years. As it's Mantel, think compelling historical detail, delicate power games and well-wrought characterisation, not fanciful Tudor romp.
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The Telegraph“Rich in its descriptive immediacy...” We can marvel at how, like the swooping falcons to whom Cromwell gives the names of his departed loved ones, [Mantel] again breathes new life into biographies we thought we knew by heart, enlarged and contemporised...
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The New York Times“Beautifully constructed...” Ms. Mantel’s descriptions of [Cromwell's] calculations are often exquisite. The wonder of Ms. Mantel’s retelling is that she makes these events fresh and terrifying all over again...
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Financial Times“Poetic pulse never falters...” This novel is much more than a necessary sequel to its astonishing predecessor. It confirms that Mantel may be writing a sequence of historical novels that could rise above anything we have known in this country in our time...
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Publishers Weekly“Pure pleasure...” Like its predecessor, the book is written in the present tense, rare for a historical novel. But the choice makes the events unfold before us: one wrong move and all could be lost...
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The Observer“Makes no concession to the disorientated...” Is Bring Up the Bodies better than, worse than or equal to Wolf Hall? While lacking, necessarily, the shocking freshness of the first book, it is narrower, tighter, at times a more brilliant and terrifying novel...
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The Spectator“It succeeds brilliantly...” Mantel has raised five distinct beings...with such realistic detail that one might think she’d shimmered through the Tower walls with a shorthand notebook. If this was really the 16th century, she might be taken as a witch...
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Guardian“As deft and verbally adroit as ever...” Mantel generally answers the same kinds of question that interest readers in court reports of murder trials or coverage of royal weddings. [She] sometimes overshares, but literary invention does not fail her...
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The Independent“An extraordinary novelist...” [Mantel] has no truck with the feminised Tudor history denounced by David Starkey, but sticks firmly to her agenda - male point-of-view, Cromwell's point-of-view, a political point-of-view, with no lust in the Tudor shrubbery...
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