I assumed this was non=fiction, and was surprised I hadn't heard of it. It turns out it's a novel, and not a very good one. Good luck to anyone writing about Wolsey in the shadow of Hilary Mantel's incredible, unsurpassable Wolf Hall trilogy, but anything would suffer in comparison. The dialogue in this is clunky and often risible, characters often declaiming or using cod-medieval language, forsooth. Example 'Begone, the lot of you! My friend and I have more weighty matters to discuss!'. Maybe Damien Lewis could make it sound believable.
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