In Bring Up the Bodies, the second book in the planned Wolf Hall trilogy, the king lets Cromwell know that he's fallen out of love with his second wife, and now favors Jane Seymour, the shy lady-in-waiting to Anne. Unfortunately, constancy was rather famously not among Henry's gifts. Wolf Hall ended with Henry (mostly) happily married to Anne Boleyn, the beautiful young daughter of an English nobleman. The book followed Thomas Cromwell, the ambitious son of a blacksmith who rose to be Henry's chief minister, as he helped the king scheme for an annulment from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. No artist in recent history, though, has done as well with the subject matter as Hilary Mantel, the English author who won the Man Booker Prize for her brilliant 2009 novel Wolf Hall. For centuries, novelists, playwrights and filmmakers have been mining the Tudor family for dramatic gold, and with good reason: It's hard not to tell an interesting story about the monarch's parade of severely dysfunctional families. If you grew up in England, or just had a world history teacher who was weirdly obsessed with Henry VIII, you've probably heard the rhyme explaining the fates of each of the king's wives. How?ĭivorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bring Up The Bodies Author Hilary Mantel
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