{"product_id":"the-mirror-and-the-light-2","title":"THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEngland, 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, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCromwell 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?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mirror and the Light\u003c\/em\u003e, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBring Up the Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47890374295899,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/7_99e1d732-bc6e-4d08-ad7c-3070a15d5304.jpg?v=1711365777","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/the-mirror-and-the-light-2","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}