Cromwell pulled the strings. Now the strings ensnare him.
Mar 04, 2020
3 minutes
For readers and reviewers alike, three main questions have attended the imminence of “The Mirror and the Light,” Hilary Mantel’s third and final novel about King Henry VIII’s cruel, capable lawyer Thomas Cromwell.
The first question: Could Mantel maintain the wild readability of the previous two books, “Wolf Hall” (2009) and “Bring Up the Bodies” (2012)? The novels traced the fortunes of Henry’s first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, while charting the steady accumulation
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