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by SWSt - written on 07/03/07 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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In the late 1530s, Thomas Cromwell is overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries in England. As part of this task, lawyer Matthew Shardlarke is despatched to Scarnsea Monastery to oversee its surrender, but quickly becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. As a historian, I don’t normally read historical novels. This is because they can sometimes get “facts” so spectacularly wrong that I find it incredibly irritating – to the point where I no longer care about the story. I was particularly wary of this book, as it concentrates on England in the 1530s – my specialist subject at university and so a period I know a fair bit about. However, I was ...
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