THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT

• Main Author: Mantel, Hilary (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London 4th ESTATE 2020
• Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas > Earl of Essex > Fiction; Court and courtiers > Fiction > Great Britain; History > Fiction > Great Britain
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• Item Description: Published in the US by Henry Holt and Company, 2020
• Physical Description: xiv, 883 pages 24 cm
• ISBN: 9780007580835

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 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. 'A masterpiece' Guardian 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Observer '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.