Katrine Alba

Enviado el: Mar 21, 2020

The maestro returns : Once the queen's head is severed he walks away is the attention-catching first line of Mantel's concluding novel in her award-winning trilogy. I've just started listening to this on audible. I couldn't wait for the physical version to arrive, so have paid twice but don't care it will be worth it. I am absolutely loving it. Within a very short time we are introduced to many familiar characters. But, the king is kept at a distance, Cromwell wondering, hesitantly, how he should 'greet a man who just killed his wife.' The tensions that will end Cromwell's life are indicated even in this first chapter. A novel to lose yourself in written by what must be Britain's greatest living writer. Highly recommend. (I will leave a full review once I finish it Saturday as it's 37 hours / 1000 pages long.)