What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door. [....] "Call-Me, we are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use."
Anne Boleyn's last days as they might have seemed to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIIIs Master Secretary who helped engineer her downfall at his master's suggestion taking down, along the way, those who had been against Cardinal Wolsey who had previously mentored Cromwell. The author has done for Thomas Cromwell what Antonia Fraser once did for Mary Queen of Scots.
Cromwell trilogy:
1. Wolf Hall
2. Bring Up the Bodies
3. The Mirror and the Light
Cromwell trilogy:
1. Wolf Hall
2. Bring Up the Bodies
3. The Mirror and the Light