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Historical Fiction · 2020 · PG-13

The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel

The final Cromwell novel — Thomas Cromwell's fall, in Mantel's greatest historical prose.

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

For14+GenreHistorical FictionLength754 pagesRead time~20.5 hours

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Violence

Some

Executions and Tudor political violence

Language

None

No profanity

Sexual Content

Some

Sexual relationships; court intrigue

Substance Use

None

Court drinking

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of power, loyalty, and the inevitability of fall

What this book is about

The third and final Wolf Hall novel (2020), following Cromwell from Anne Boleyn's execution to his own. Features executions, Tudor court violence, and sexual content. For adults.

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Execution scenes

Tudor political violence

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