Excellent. Of course, I know that even biography can't ever hope to recreate the exact experience or story of any place and time, but Mantel made me think "that is what could have happened" many many times while I was listening to this book the last ten days, fighting through my commute. Beautiful writing, amazing and fresh grasp of characters many of us Tudor nerds know as well as Shakespeare's. She made me feel I was meeting them all for the first time and, despite evidence to the contrary, that I couldn't be entirely sure how it would end. Both Wolf Hall and this one are must reads.