Arrange Your Face (Part 2)

Wolf Crawl Week 9: Monday 26 February – Sunday 3 March

To get these updates in your inbox, subscribe to Footnotes and Tangents and turn on notifications for the Cromwell Trilogy.

Welcome to week nine of Wolf Crawl

This week, we are reading the rest of “Arrange Your Face, 1531”. Cromwell’s star is rising as he steps out of the shadows and arranges his face.

You will find everything you need for this read-along on the main Cromwell trilogy page of my website, including:

• The reading schedule

• Weekly updates, like this one

• Plot summaries for each character

• Online resources about Mantel’s writing and Thomas Cromwell

This is a long post and may get clipped by your email provider. It is best viewed online here.

In this week’s post:

1. This week’s story

2. This week’s characters

3. This week’s theme: ‘Arrange your face’

4. Tangent: Bilney the Martyr, Cromwell the Pheonix

5. Tangent: Born under a good sign

6. Footnote: Lions and giants and bears, oh my!

7. Quote of the week: ‘Where are your knives?’

8. Next week