The Mirror and the Light
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Published in 2020, The Mirror and the Light brings Hilary Mantel’s celebrated Thomas Cromwell trilogy to its conclusion. Opening in May 1536, in the aftermath of Anne Boleyn’s execution, the novel follows Cromwell at the height of his influence as he navigates the dangerous court of Henry VIII. With the king’s marriage to Jane Seymour, the dissolution of the monasteries and the religious upheavals reshaping England, Cromwell’s power seems formidable, yet the shadows of his past and the rivalries around him are never far away.
Returning to the world of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel offers an extraordinary portrait of ambition, memory, loyalty and the precarious nature of political favour. Rich in historical detail and psychological insight, this final volume transforms the familiar story of Tudor England into an intimate study of a man approaching the limits of his own power.
From the book
”She may be dead, he thinks, but she can still ruin me.”
— Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light
On The Mirror and the Light
”The portrait of Thomas Cromwell that began with Wolf Hall (2009) and continued with Bring Up the Bodies (2012) now concludes with a novel of epic proportions, every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors.”
— Alexandra Harris, The Guardian