- Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character), Fiction, Lawyers, History
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- C. J. Sansom
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 650
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, Little Brown & Company, Mantle
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781336024106
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