Comments on: Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall https://thesupercargo.com/bring-bodies-wolf-hall/ Words, Images, Speech Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: John https://thesupercargo.com/bring-bodies-wolf-hall/#comment-40551 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:02:16 +0000 https://thesupercargo.com/?p=11870#comment-40551 In reply to Helen Topor.

Well, probably it’s a little bit you and a little bit her. 🙂
I do wish you all the best reading the trilogy. It is outstandingly good. And now, see, now you’ve got me thinking it might be time for a re-read!

]]> By: Helen Topor https://thesupercargo.com/bring-bodies-wolf-hall/#comment-40523 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:59:32 +0000 https://thesupercargo.com/?p=11870#comment-40523 I’m tackling Wolf Hall again after years of abandoning it around page 70. The problems were the two you identified: who is ‘he’ here and here and here? and which Thomas is this Thomas? That one? Years later, I’ve picked it up again and am persevering because, as a writer of historical fiction, I’m interested in how Mantel has handled these difficulties. For me, the story still stumbles on POV from time to time, mainly over Mantel’s overuse of ‘he’. I have to work hard to untangle the men from each other. But I’ll keep reading this time. Beginning to ask myself: Is it me?

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