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I just couldn't get into it at all. Read the first few chapters, but I found the breezy writing and caricatured characters just annoying. I then went to the last few chapters, thinking that maybe things would develop and I'd be intrigued enough to finish this short book, but the last seemed exactly like the first: breezy and perhaps fable-like, but not enough for me to have a desire to finish reading it.

One reviewer on Amazon said that nothing happens until the very end, and even then it's confusing. That reviewer gave it five stars, saying the book would stay with you for a long time. I really don't need things "to happen" in a book that's got what I consider to be great writing, great style. But here, nothing but goofy stuff was happening and I didn't like the writing style. I LOVED *Wolf Hall* so I was predisposed to like anything by Hilary Mantel, but this book isn't up my alley. If I can say anything good about it, it's that Hilary Mantel obviously is a writer who doesn't just have one trick up her sleeve: this is SO different from Wolf Hall that I wouldn't have believed it was the same author.