The Mirror and the Light [electronic resource] : An Adaptation in 30 Minute Episodes
Mantel, Hilary2020
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 4th Estate presents the essential adaptation of The Mirror and the Light. The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning 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 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. 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? 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. 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. A Guardian Book of the Year -- A Times Book of the Year -- A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year -- A Sunday Times Book of the Year -- A New Statesman Book of the Year -- A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)
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Author:
Mantel, Hilary, AuthorKloska, Joseph, Narrator
Edition:
Abridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
ISBN:
9780008366728
Language:
English
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BRN:
2772220
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