The paperback edition of this year's Man Booker Prize winner this is the second in the series
following the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first "Wolf Hall" also won the Booker Prize and
sold more than 500 000 copies in the UK alone. Mantel explores one of the most frightening
episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. She is the first English writer
and the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. '... literary invention does not fail her:
she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood "Guardian"
