Twee Surgeon

This book is extraordinary. I have never read a historical novel that seems like I am reading real history, but this book does it. It could never be compared with other Tudor novels in that the detail in Wolf Hall is so finely described, down to Henry's pudgy fingers covered in ruby rings. The book itself is based around Thomas Cromwell and Hilary Mantel writes him as a sympathetic figure and not the tight lipped and narrowed eyed brute depicted in the Holbein portrait. Wolf Hall is part one...