2013 Audie Award Winner, Literary Fiction. In this sequel to Wolf Hall, Henry VIII is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn, who has failed to give him a son and is alienating his old friends and the noble families of England. While Anne andher powerful family will not yield without a struggle, Thomas Cromwell ponders an alliance with his enemies, the papist aristocracy, to bring her down. Winer of the 2012 Man Booker Prize for fiction. "Vance takes command of the complex story, reading Mantel's complicated prose with assurance."—Booklist