Wolf Hall- Don't Believe the Hype!
Today I am somewhat non-plussed by the news that the strangely avianesque looking author Hilary Mantel has won yet another prize for her novel 'Bring Up the Bodies'. (I'm sorry if that appears a little pejorative, unkind or ad hominem, but I am always amazed at just how much she looks like she has been drawn by Quentin Blake to the extent where I cannot but comment on it).
When her other Booker prize winning novel, Wolf Hall won, I bought a copy for my wife. She loves this genre of historical drama, a bit like Ken Follett's 'Pillars of the Earth', which she enjoyed immensely. Anyway, try as she might, she just could not get into Wolf Hall, somewhat to my surprise to be honest. I resolved to read it myself prompted by the rave reviews:
“A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can’t think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world.” Diana Athill "A fascinating read, so good I rationed myself. It is re…
When her other Booker prize winning novel, Wolf Hall won, I bought a copy for my wife. She loves this genre of historical drama, a bit like Ken Follett's 'Pillars of the Earth', which she enjoyed immensely. Anyway, try as she might, she just could not get into Wolf Hall, somewhat to my surprise to be honest. I resolved to read it myself prompted by the rave reviews:
“A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can’t think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world.” Diana Athill "A fascinating read, so good I rationed myself. It is re…