Hilary Mantel

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of `Wolf Hall' and `Bring Up the Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets.Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of `good souls and sad cases', children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage.Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and Botswana, of the terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives, refuse to be put to rest and threaten to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves and their children.This is a breathtakingly intelligent novel that asks the most difficult questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy ever deserved? Can you ever escape your own past? A literary family saga written with the skill and subtlety of a true master, this is Hilary Mantel at her best.

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Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood.
In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer...

Angleterre, 1520. Règne des Tudors. Le roi Henri VIII n'a pas de fils pour lui succéder. Situation préoccupante qui pourrait entraîner le pays sur le chemin de la guerre civile. Aussi décide-t-il de divorcer de Catherine d'Aragon, avec qui il est marié depuis plus de vingt ans pour épouser Anne Boleyn, dont il est tombé amoureux. Son conseiller, le cardinal Wolsey échouant à obtenir l'accord du pape, un jeune homme plein de fougue et de ressources va peu à peu entrer dans les bonnes grâces du roi et l'aider à vaincre l'opposition.
Son nom : Thomas Cromwell. Ambitieux, idéaliste et opportuniste à la fois, fin politicien et manipulateur né, celui-ci est au début d'une carrière qui va modifier profondément et durablement le visage du royaume.

1535. À l'ombre des Tudors, grandir demande une prudence de tous les instants. Nommé secrétaire d'Henri VIII en reconnaissance de ses manoeuvres, Thomas Cromwell touche enfin le pouvoir du doigt. Après le scandaleux divorce royal et le schisme qui en a découlé, l'Angleterre vit pourtant des heures troublées. Jamais le royaume n'a été plus menacé, les intrigues de cour plus venimeuses, le roi plus insatiable. Les têtes ne tiennent plus qu'à un fil. À commencer par celle d'Anne Boleyn, reine en disgrâce prise à son propre piège...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. 'Every bit as good as they said it was' Observer 'Terrific' Margaret Atwood 'As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop' The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life.