The Dead Complain of Their Burial / Arrange Your Face (Part 1)

Wolf Crawl Week 8: Monday 19 February – Sunday 25 February

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Welcome to week eight of Wolf Crawl

This week, we are reading the short chapter “The Dead Complain of Their Burial, Christmastide 1530” and the first part of “Arrange Your Face, 1531”. Cromwell turns a bad dream into a good one and starts his new job as councillor to the king.

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: ‘Pick your prince’

4. Location focus: The Palace of Placentia

5. Tangent: The dreams of kings

6. Background: The former king is the future king

7. Spotlight: Four Queens

8. Background: Making men talk

9. Quote of the week: ‘Madam, your daughter should sit.’

10. Next week