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🗓️ 25 July 2022
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This Man Booker Prize-winning novel has one question at its core: what if Thomas Cromwell wasn't quite the jerk we thought he was? Henry VIII's right-hand man definitely does dirty deeds on behalf of the King, but Mantel creatively fills in blanks in the historical record to imagine a man who wasn't so bad.
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0:49.8 | My name is Craig. |
0:53.8 | Where Wolf and London? |
0:54.8 | I mean this part of this book takes place in London. |
0:59.0 | There's a wolf in this. |
1:03.4 | See because I watched that Hulu show, the bear and like the bear I guess is like a metaphor |
1:09.1 | or something and now this book that you read for our book podcast overdue or one of us reads |
1:14.4 | a book every week and tells the other person about it is called Wolf Hall. |
1:18.8 | And so now I don't know whether you expect a wolf or not or if it's going to be some |
1:22.9 | kind of metaphor or if it's just named after wolves but it is not affiliated with them |
1:28.8 | in any other way. |
1:31.2 | Uh, who can you first question? |
1:35.2 | Can you tell me if there's literal wolves in this? |
1:37.8 | Uh, no, not really ever. |
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1:42.0 | Metaphorical wolves like they're coming for you like a like you're in the the hall and |
1:48.3 | the hungry wolves are chasing you like Durandoran. |
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