The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker
Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize
for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 'Mantel has
taken us to the dark heart of history...and what a show' The Times
'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 blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's
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 Henry's regime to breaking point,
Cromwell's 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 man's 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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