![]() I was having a lot more fun because the author was clearly having a lot more fun, giving her characters the most outlandish things to say. Somehow Wolf Hall had gone from challenging but fascinating to thrilling and surprising. I found myself turning the pages, wanting to read beyond the roughly hundred pages I'd scheduled for the week. The pearls around her long neck looked to him like little beads of fat, and as she argued she would reach up and tug them he kept his eyes on her fingertips, nails flashing like tiny knives." They were traitors and deserved the death, but it is a death exceeding most in cruelty. The colors should have had a fresh maidenly charm but all he could think of were stretched innards, umbles and tripes, grey-pink intestines looped out of a living body he had a second batch of recalcitrant friars to be dispatched to Tyburn, to be slit up and gralloched by the hangman. ![]() "Anne was wearing, that day, rose pink and dove grey. ![]() We don't just see it, we see it with Cromwell's barely contained distaste for the role he's been forced to play, on her behalf. Mantel has pumped up the volume in the way she uses language check out her description of Anne's outfit. Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester blowing up like a thunderstorm, when for once we have a fine day." Mark Gatiss as Stephen Gardener/Wolf Hall "Stephen Gardiner! Coming in as he's going out, striding towards the king's chamber, a folio under one arm, the other flailing the air. ![]()
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