THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT

blue cloth, gilt spine, xiv, 883 pages) : genealogical table, ribbon bookmark, a fine copy of THE first edition, The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. "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 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"--Publisher description. Booker Prize winner for the first 2 vols in this trilogy.

Product Info

ISBN: 0007481098

ISBN-13: 9780007481095

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Year: 2020

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: Canada