Hilary Mantel asks readers hoping for third book in Thomas Cromwell trilogy to be patient as RSC announces transfer
Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell and Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn in the RSC production of Wolf Hall. Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex
Stage versions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies will transfer to London's West End in May, it will be announced on Thursday, but fans of Hilary Mantel's all-conquering Thomas Cromwell novels will have to wait a while longer than they might have hoped to read the third instalment of the trilogy.
"I have to ask my readers to be patient because the third book is highly complex," the writer said as she spoke of the stage transfer. "I have to let it evolve. I don't want to force it ." Mantel said she hoped to have the final part of the trilogy "substantially finished within 18 months", but added: "There's nothing about the process that's predictable."
Mantel has spent much of her recent time in Stratford where the RSC is staging productions of her first two books to full houses. But she said it was time well spent.
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"I have to ask my readers to be patient because the third book is highly complex," the writer said as she spoke of the stage transfer. "I have to let it evolve. I don't want to force it ." Mantel said she hoped to have the final part of the trilogy "substantially finished within 18 months", but added: "There's nothing about the process that's predictable."
Mantel has spent much of her recent time in Stratford where the RSC is staging productions of her first two books to full houses. But she said it was time well spent.
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