Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)

Posted on 12 August 2017 by C.J. Sansom

Spring, 1549 Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos.The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protector s prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry Since the old King s death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry s younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth The gruesome murder of the wife of a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth s mother, John Boleyn which could have political implications for Elizabeth brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich There they are reunited with Shardlake s former assistant Jack Barak The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding the death of Edith Boleyn, as a second murder is committed And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich Soon the rebels have taken over the city, England s second largest Barak throws in his lot with the rebels Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry. Download Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7) – kino-fada.fr How I envy those who will read this in October, rather than April, as is the doom of those of us Sansom fans in the United States.One of my most anticipated reads of the year and it did not disappoint staggeringly good historical fiction, part of a series that finds something new to say about the Tudors This time it s the rebellions of 1549 during the reign of Edward VI, most particularly in Norwich and Norfolk Sansom achieves something remarkable a novel that is so full of historical detail and colour, its descriptions so vivid, that it pays to take your time and visualise what you re reading It feels like events a One of my most anticipated reads of the year and it did not disappoint staggeringly good histor...

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12 August 2017

C.J. Sansom