The Mirror And The Light The Rise And Fall Thomas Cromwell 3 Hilary Mantel by Hilary Mantel 9781250622587, 1250622581 instant download after payment.

Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the superb historical trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.  The Mirror & the Light traces the dramatic final years of Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son from Putney who climbs to the heights of power under Henry VIII.

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.

‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’

It is the third volume of Mantel’s acclaimed trilogy where 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.

‘The Mirror and the Light completes a tragic arc in which Thomas Cromwell is finally brought down by the police state he designed. Mantel’s masterful exhibition of sly dialogue and exquisite description brings the Tudor world alive.’  -  The 2020 Booker Prize Judges

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Man Booker Prize, A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day and Vacant Possession. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.