Mirror and the Light
epub | 1.75 MB | English | Mantel, Hilary
: <p align="justify"> <p align="justify" style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' <p align="justify">England, May 1536. <p align="justify">Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. <p align="justify">As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. <p align="justify">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. <p align="justify">Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on - he has no great family to back him, no private army. <p align="justify">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. <p align="justify">But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? <p align="justify">Do the dead continually unbury themselves? <p align="justify">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? <p align="justify">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. <p align="justify">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.
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