![]() "I've marched a lot of people to the scaffold, and beheading seems to be my favourite sport," she said.ĭespite the inevitability of Cromwell's death, however, she said that "in every scene, even the quiet ones, I try to create turning points, multiple turning points. Over her career Mantel has executed numerous characters, including Marie-Antoinette and many other figures in her 1992 novel about the French revolution, A Place of Greater Safety as well as Anne Boleyn and her supposed lovers in Bring Up the Bodies. Mantel, making a rare public appearance in a year when fragile health has limited her engagements, was speaking about Bring Up the Bodies, the second book in her projected trilogy about the 16th-century politician Thomas Cromwell, who started as "a blacksmith's son, and rose to be Earl of Essex, Henry VIII's right-hand man, and minister of everything" – before ending up on the scaffold. In writing a historical novel you use all the tricks you have learned on diverse subject matter and use all the techniques you bring to novels of contemporary life." She added: "I don't see why you should compromise. ![]()
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