Wolf Hall is a St Albans Book Group read, and my first venture into Booker territory. I’ve only progressed about 60 odd pages in so far but it is fairly enjoyable. The Tudors is a period of history that I never studied at school but over the last few years films like the Other Boleyn Girl and Witchfinder General have helped me to at least a rudimentary understanding of the period. Yes, I know you couldn’t get two films at such diametrically opposed ends of the spectrum, such is my taste in film 🙂
The only issue I have with the book so far is the authors style of writing. It seems very passive, even sequences like the young Cromwell getting beaten half to death by his father are somehow strangely uninvolving. Hopefully the interest of the period and the events happening will compensate for this. Definitely worth a punt for £9.49 from Amazon though.
