Make or Mar / Three-Card Trick

Wolf Crawl Week 5: Monday 29 January – Sunday 4 February

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Welcome to week five of Wolf Crawl

This week we are reading the chapters “Make or Mar, All Hallows 1529” and “Three-Card Trick, Winter 1529–Spring 1530”. These chapters see Cromwell pick himself up after a year of losses and busy himself in the cause of saving Cardinal Wolsey.

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

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In this week’s post:

1. This week’s story

2. This week’s characters

3. This week’s theme: Make or break

4. Spotlight: Cromwell’s tears

5. Theme: Memory

6. Theme: How to be a person

7. Character focus: Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk

8. Background: Twelfth Night revels and Lenten supper

9. Quote of the week: peacock wings

10. Next week