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The Haunting of Wolf Hall #18: Falcons

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May 02, 2024
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This is a bonus post for paid subscribers to accompany the weekly discussion post of the Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel. It is part of a series exploring spectral and haunting themes in the Cromwell trilogy. You can read all of them here.

Still Life of Dead Birds by Jan Vonck. Source.

At Wolf Hall, old Sir John asks:

‘All these falcons named for dead wo…

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