The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, 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. The story begins in 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, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's...
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Fantastisk - Den här boken blir bara bättre för varje sida. Så fort jag började läsa trilogin visste jag att det är morgon dagens nya klassiker. Även om man känner till Englands historia löpande genom hela boken så vet man inte vad som händer näst, detalj efter detalj, lika satirisk som grymt och det tar inte slut ... efter 880 sidor känns det tomt och jag hoppar Mantel kommer med något nytt
