The fact that I've made it through Midnight's Children, various bits of James Joyce, most of Austen/Dickens/the Brontës/Shakespeare, the Bible from cover to cover, all of Harry Potter, and various works in Old and Middle English (some of these via an English degree, some through choice, some through bloody-mindedness) but couldn't get through Wolf Hall should tell you something about Wolf Hall, or about me, one or the other.