Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morni
ng,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a
plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'Eng
land, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey i
s his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant
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