Soon to be a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Womens Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker PrizeIt is a book not read, but lived TelegraphHer Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century ObserverThe bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantels Man Booker Prizewinning 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 blacksmiths son from Putney emerges from the springs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to shortlived 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 Henrys regime to breaking point, Cromwells 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...

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