The Mirror & the Light could hardly have arrived amid more fanfare. Eight years in the writing, Hilary Mantel’s concluding volume of her Tudor trilogy (begun in 2009 with Wolf Hall and continued with Bring Up the Bodies in 2012) has generated a remarkable buzz of anticipation. Accolades heaped upon the first two novels (both of which won the Man Booker prize, among numerous other awards), followed by an acclaimed RSC dramatisation and an outstanding television serialisation, have kept expectations for this book high.
Plunging you into the moments after the beheading of Anne Boleyn, with which Bring Up the Bodies ended, its opening pages are a masterpiece of gruesome finesse. Fallen belly down on the scaffold, the small body “swims in a pool of
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