Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies

Just wonderful. Cromwell walking the tightrope and deftly dancing around all the conflicting interests and courtiers that wish him ill while managing to make real a king's whims. Can't wait for the 3rd book in March. At home, William is coming in to his own and developing his own character. He's had trouble with speech and doesn't pay much attention to people either at home or school, but he's still a charmer. He took some chocolate 'dinosaur poo' into school on Friday for Show & Tell, and when he came home proudly announced that as a direct result he now has a girlfriend. A teacher must have said something to him, because he then declared 'Well, it's one way of getting a girlfriend!' Later on he rushed to the loo, and after the flush stated loudly 'That's that mystery solved!'  I investigated no further.