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The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel · 2020

Literary Fiction · ranked #51 in category

Winner · The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2021

The final volume of Mantel's Cromwell trilogy follows Thomas Cromwell through the executions, marriages and political manoeuvres of the final years before his own fall. Mantel writes with the same extraordinary inhabited immediacy as Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, completing one of the greatest historical novel sequences in English. Winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2021.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2020 · 2020s
Author
Hilary Mantel
Standing
Essential Read

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