![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on he has no great family to back him, no private army.ĭespite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future.īut can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin?ĭo 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. 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, Jane Seymour. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you.Īnne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.Īs her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. ![]()
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