![]() It's not the first time and he's so beaten up his sister and brother-in-law are amazed he doesn't have anything broken. Abusive Parents: The book opens with young Thomas Cromwell getting the stuffing kicked out of him by his father, Walter.A television miniseries followed, also in 2015. The first two books were adapted for the stage in 2013 as Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2 and transferred to Broadway in 2015, where the plays were nominated for 8 Tony Awards, winning one (Best Costume Design). ![]() Probably a reasonable paperweight, if you're going to abuse it in such a way. A third book, The Mirror and the Light, was published in March 2020. It won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, as did its sequel, Bring Up The Bodies, in 2012. It portrays him much more positively than most fictional depictions of Cromwell tend to, as a generally nice guy with extraordinary talents and a good sense of humour who just happens to occasionally do some morally ambiguous things to keep favour with his king. ![]() Wolf Hall is a novel by Hilary Mantel told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII's favourite advisors in the 1530s. ![]()
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