I guess the early to mid 2000s was a big Thomas Cromwell moment in fiction. An honest question: how well known is T. Cromwell apart from the recent novels and tv shows? Like, do British schoolchildren learn about him? Is he an easy reference point, or is he more of a historical plucked from relative obscurity? This novel takes place more or less within the same context as the Hilary Mantel novels, but our main character is one of Thomas Cromwell’s “Commissioners”, a kind of […]