An entertaining, though long, book. While Thomas Cromwell is the main character, he doesn't seem to develop at all, just magnificently and wittily playing the Yes Man to whoever is his boss. Sometimes hard to follow as half the people a named Thomas, everyone has two sets of names, and she makes it intentionally not clear who is speaking at times. And, it being about Henry VIII, you know what's going to happen. In the end just needed a break from academia, and this fit the bill well.