How the British author's ‘Wolf Hall' trilogy became a family matter of life and death When my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I asked if she had any regrets. Without missing a beat, she said, 'I might not live to read the sequel to Wolf Hall.' This was late 2010. Wolf Hall had been released the year before and my mother, long fascinated by Tudor history, had relished it. She would later be embarrassed that in the face of death she'd expressed the desire to read above all else. But as a writer, I was delighted.

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