Happily, Wood partially eases his anxiety by suggesting that for Mitchell the setting offers similar intellectual rewards to his more obviously postmodern and structurally playful books like Cloud Atlas: "Its very historical distance – its self-enclosed quality – represents an assertion of pure fictionality. If you haven't been thrown into conniptions by the thought that Mantel may be commercial and traditional, I'd also recommend the rest of the article, which is excellent. What such novelists are looking for in those oldfangled laboratories is sometimes mysterious to me and how these daring writers differ from a very gifted but frankly traditional and more commercial historical novelist like Hilary Mantel is an anxiously unanswered question."
Wood went on, even more provocatively: "I am thinking not just of Mitchell but of Thomas Pynchon, Susan Sontag, Steven Millhauser, AS Byatt, Peter Carey.
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