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England in the 1520s is one step away from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be devastated by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his 20-year marriage and also marry Anne Boleyn.

The Pope and the most of Europe are against him. It is into this impasse that Thomas Cromwell falls: a wholly original man, charming and tyrannical, both idealistic and opportunistic, shrewd at reading people and ruthless in his ambition. But Henry is fickle: a tender day, a killer day. Cromwell helps him break through the opposition, but what will the price of his triumph be?

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Hilary Mantel’s latest novel, a huge and meticulously detailed book that won the Man Booker Prize in 2009, is about the rise of Henry VIII’s Prime Minister, Thomas Cromwell.

Born the son of a blacksmith, he fled to mainland Europe to escape his father’s abuses, spent almost 20 years abroad as a knight of fortune, then as a domestic servant, and moved up when his talents became accountant, scholar and banker. , lawyer, and in general a man who knows how to settle things, with hooks or with crooks. Mantel only speaks of this long apprenticeship afterwards; After a lively scene involving the teenage Thomas and his drunken father, the book jumps forward three decades to 1527, when Cromwell is 42 and employing his talents in the service of Cardinal Wolsey, the most powerful man in England after the king.

It is portrayed as an extremely loyal relationship with lots of affection on both sides. Cromwell is also shown as a devoted husband and father, a surprisingly likable portrayal of a character usually portrayed as King Henry’s hard-hearted axeman. One of the joys of the book is simply the time spent in the company of such a caring and dedicated individual.

When Wolsey is stripped of his power in 1529, Cromwell enters the king’s service and manages to soften his dealings with his former master while attending to Henry’s needs, a remarkable juggling act in itself. He soon became the king’s closest adviser. Henry is trying to end his 20-year marriage to Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn, a lady-in-waiting of much lower rank, whom he hopes will bear him a child. (She did not, but her daughter would reign as Elizabeth I.) Wolsey had attempted to negotiate an annulment of Rome but had failed.

The solicitor Cromwell, now dividing his time between the court and Parliament, suggests the alternative route of simply declaring Henry head of the English Church. It is the first step towards Anglicanism, although Henry himself remained a follower of the Catholic rite, and it was still a time when practitioners of the more radical Protestantism preached by Luther and others on the Continent were being burned at the stake as heretics .

Mantel is not ashamed of these executions and tortures, but neither is he rubbing his nose in our faces. While she’s as open about bedroom matters as she is about anything else, there’s little hint of the jeweled lasciviousness usually associated with historical romance. Anne, portrayed as a self-absorbed manipulator who keeps Henry in check for over seven years, eventually marries the king and lets him into her bed.

It is noteworthy that while Mantel almost portrays Anne as the play’s villain, he treats the interviews between Anne and Cromwell with respect and courtesy on both sides. His writing is as free of melodrama as it is of bodice-ripping, and the many little romances throughout the book (some of which even involve Cromwell himself) are treated with sincerity and warmth.

From history we know that Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn and beheaded her to marry Jane Seymour. Within a few years Cromwell would also fall from grace and be executed in his turn. Mantel suggests that there may be a connection between these events and, in the final line that explains the somewhat elliptical title, hints at a sequel that may well, but need not, develop into a sequel.

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