Eden ’s Reviews > Wolf Hall > Status Update

The beauty of the prose creeps up on you, I love the clever comparison of Cromwell and Joanne to Anne and Henry. Also there’s a gorgeous passage about burning everything down that really sticks with you. That said, I do agree that referring to Cromwell constantly as “he” is distracting. I get it from an aesthetic perspective but really as a reader it’s a bit of a challenge that takes you out of the novel.

“He, Cromwell, admires Katherine: he likes to see her moving about the royal palaces, as wide as she is high, stitched into gowns so bristling with gemstones that they look as if they are designed less for beauty than to withstand blows from a sword.”