In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, the dead appear in corners, in hallways, solid in body rather than ghostly holograms. Here stands Cardinal Woolsey in his opulent scarlet cloak; there is Cromwell’s little daughter, Grace, still shockingly beautiful, never aging. The permeability of the veil between the worlds at All Hallows, All Saints, and All Souls is a given. One year at that time, as Cromwell contemplates all he’s lost, his family dead coalesce into one body, into hands that won’t stop touching him.
Visits from the Dead
Visits from the Dead
Visits from the Dead
In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, the dead appear in corners, in hallways, solid in body rather than ghostly holograms. Here stands Cardinal Woolsey in his opulent scarlet cloak; there is Cromwell’s little daughter, Grace, still shockingly beautiful, never aging. The permeability of the veil between the worlds at All Hallows, All Saints, and All Souls is a given. One year at that time, as Cromwell contemplates all he’s lost, his family dead coalesce into one body, into hands that won’t stop touching him.