Wolf Hall brings the brutal life of the Tudors to the forefront. We mostly follow the rise of and fall of Thomas Cromwell and follow Henry VIII and his courtiers. The key events of the story take place over just less than a ten year period from the 1520s to the 1530s. Mantel has taken what is, supposedly, Britain's best loved history topic, Henry VIII and his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, marriage to Anne Boleyn and the resulting split with Rome.
