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The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

4.39 (32,846 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Hilary Mantel

The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize

It is a book not read, but lived Telegraph

Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century Observer

The bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantels Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmiths son from Putney emerges from the springs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.

Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henrys regime to breaking point, Cromwells robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?

With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common mans vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.

A Guardian Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year

Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)

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Product Details
  • Weight: 620g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780007481002

About Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books including A Place of Greater Safety Beyond Black the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel The Mirror & the Light won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.

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