Why people recommend it
Who recommended it
- Gilbert Cruz Discussed
- Nicholas Pearson Discussed
Gilbert Cruz — 6 mentions
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“Those novels were Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the first two in a trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell”
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“So tell us a little bit about working with Hillary on Wolf Hall. I did a contract with her for two books.”
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“Warfall is over 600 pages long, isn't it?”
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“and for those American listeners at least who may not remember and certainly were not in in England when the first book was published can you describe the reception of the first Wolf Hall book”
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“As we both noted, it and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, both won the Booker Prize”
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“They're all in Wolf Hall with the family before the family with his wife and children. I find all that very touching.”
Nicholas Pearson — 3 mentions
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“And those 40 pages are very roughly the first 40 pages of Wolf Hall.”
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“Hall is quite an expansive novel. There is a sense of all the underbelly of the whole of British history”
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“She always knew where we always knew where we were going and in many ways we were going back to the very first sentence of Wolf Hall.”