The mirror & the light

Author/Creator:

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020

Format:

Book

Edition:

First U.S edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel

Series Titles:

Thomas Cromwell Trilogy ; [3]
Mantel, Hilary, 1952- Thomas Cromwell Trilogy ; 3.

Related/Included Titles:

Wolf hall.
Bring up the bodies.

Variant Titles:

Mirror and the light

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Wolf hall
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Bring up the bodies

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Historical fiction
Political fiction

Subjects:

Cromwell, Thomas,Earl of Essex,1485?-1540--Fiction
HenryVIII,King of England,1491-1547--Fiction
Courts and courtiers--Fiction
Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction

Description/Summary

Summary:

""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 before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. 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's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's 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 & 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's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvii, 754 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Sequel to Wolf hall (2009) and Bring up the bodies (2012).

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936999220202486

ISBN:

9781250622587
1250622581
9780805096606
0805096604

OCLC Number:

1128890576

Barcode:

010003092016
050000093854