The Mirror and The Light
Original price was: ₹799.00.₹720.00Current price is: ₹720.00.
Sorry this product is not available for sale outside India.
Author: Hilary Mantel
9780008366629 | PB | pp. 904 | 2020 | Fourth Estate
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel, the final part of the Wolf Hall Trilogy. The author traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell; the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power.
Ships in 2-4 days
The long-awaited 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.
| Author: | Hilary Mantel |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780008366629 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 904 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Edition: | First |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author is one of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Uniquely, her last two novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, both won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She is the first British author to have won two Booker prizes, the only woman to have done so and the only writer to have won with two consecutive novels. Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012, hailed her as ‘the greatest modern English prose writer'. To date, Wolf Hall has sold over 200,000 copies in hardback, and 800,000 copies in paperback, in the UK alone.
She was born in northern Derbyshire in 1952. She was educated at a convent school in Cheshire and went on to the LSE and Sheffield University, where she studied law. After university she was briefly a social worker in a geriatric hospital, and much later used her experiences in her novels Every Day is Mother's Day and Vacant Possession. In 1977 she went to live in Botswana with her husband, then a geologist. In 1982 they moved on to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, where she would set her third novel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street.
Her first novel was published in 1985, and she returned to the UK the following year. In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing, and became the film critic of the Spectator. Her fourth novel, Fludd, was awarded the Cheltenham Festival Prize, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, and the Winifred Holtby Prize. Her fifth novel, A Place of Greater Safety, won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.
A Change of Climate, published in 1993, is the story of an East Anglian family, former missionaries, torn apart by conflicts generated in Southern Africa in the early years of Apartheid. An Experiment in Love, published in 1995, is a story about childhood and university life, set in London in 1970. It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. Beyond Black, published in 2005, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, while Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and Bring Up the Bodies, its sequel, won the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Hilary was also awarded a CBE in 2006. In 2014 she was made a Dame.
She reviews widely for a range of newspapers and magazines, and is currently working on the sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, to be called The Mirror and the Light.
Shipping
This book will be shipped in 2-4 working days’ time. The time taken for you to receive the book after it is shipped will depend upon the mode you choose, while completing your purchase. The rates applicable for each mode are different.
You will be informed after the order is shipped.
Shipping costs depend on the mode chosen, the weight of the item, and the distance it will travel to reach its destination. Shipping costs will be charged depending on the weight of the entire purchase (if more than one book is purchased). The same shipping mode will apply to all products in such a case.
