Hillary Mantel has done it yet again. Following in the close heals of her earlier book, Wolf Hall, which won the award for 2009, this year her book, Bring up the bodies, which is second part of her trilogy on the life and way of Thomas Cromwell, made her win the Man Booker Award for 2012 for a second time. Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister of the Tudor court of Henry VIII, who has severally been portrayed as a ruthless, cruel and negative character in all the earlier fiction, is the central character in both her books. But Hillary Mantel takes a fresh look in both the books from the view point of Cromwell without any prejudice of his much touted violent portrayal.
For the lovers of fiction, both her books are essentially must reads.
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