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 my...