Title in this set: The Mirror and the Light Condition:BRAND NEWFormat:PaperbackISBN :9780007481002 The Mirror and the Light: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the two-time winner \u2018If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?\u2019 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\u2019s son from Putney emerges from the spring\u2019s 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\u2019s regime to breaking point, Cromwell\u2019s 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\u2019s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. About the Author: Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL ( born Thompson; 6 July 1952 \u2013 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.[5] Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother\u2019s Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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