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Giving Up the Ghost
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Table of Contents
Cast of Characters
Family Trees
Part One
Chapter I - Across the Narrow Sea. 1500
Chapter II - Paternity. 1527
Chapter III - At Austin Friars. 1527
Part Two
Chapter I - Visitation. 1529
Chapter II - An Occult History of Britain. 1521–1529
Chapter III - Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529
Part Three
Chapter I - Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529–Spring 1530
Chapter II - Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring–December 1530
Chapter III - The Dead Complain of Their Burial. Christmastide 1530
Part Four
Chapter I - Arrange Your Face. 1531
Chapter II - ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532
Chapter III - Early Mass. November 1532
Part Five
Chapter I - Anna Regina. 1533
Chapter II - Devil's Spit. Autumn and winter 1533
Chapter III - A Painter's Eye. 1534
Part Six
Chapter I - Supremacy. 1534
Chapter II - The Map of Christendom. 1534–1535
Chapter III - To Wolf Hall. July 1535
Author's Note
Acknowledgements
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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.
Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-
Bring up the bodies: a novel / Hilary Mantel.—1
p. cm.
“A John Macrae book.”
Sequel to: Wolf Hall.
ISBN: 978-1-4299-4765-7
1. Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540--Fiction. 2. Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction. I. Title.
PR6063.A438B75 2012
823’.914--dc23
2012006335
Originally published in the U.K. in 2012 by Fourth Estate
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.