Analysts say the shortage has arisen because coconut plantations have been unscrupulously converted for housing development.

BBC: Sri Lanka takes on nationwide coconut crisis

By the end of Bring Up The Bodies the reader is in a similar position: seduced by Cromwell's charisma step-by-step into ready acceptance of his power, however unscrupulously he wields it.

BBC: Can Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies match Wolf Hall?