The mirror & the light av Hilary Mantel

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<p><b>The brilliant #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller</b><br><br><b>Named a best book of 2020 by <i>The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian</i>, and many more</b><br><br>With <i>The Mirror & the Light</i>, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, <i>Wolf Hall </i>and <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>. 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. <br><br>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 son from Putney emerges from the spring¿s bloodbath to co