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MIRROR & LIGHT_WOLF HALL TR HB

By Hilary Mantel

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MIRROR & LIGHT_WOLF HALL TR HB

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Soon to be a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted 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 long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's 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 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 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
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
912
Release Date:
2020-03-05
Publication Date:
2020-03-05
Publisher:
Fourth Estate
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0007480997
ISBN13:
9780007480999
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1288 g
Height:
166 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
65 cm
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