![]() ![]() Another visiting ghost in the form of his previous employer, Cardinal Wolsey, continues to trouble him. ![]() Ghost-laden memories arise from a childhood spent as his father’s punching bag and his later years in Europe as a mercenary soldier and financial fixer. But mostly it’s business as usual: The wedding of the king to third wife Jane Seymour, the dissolution of the monasteries, repressing tax rebellions in the north and the endless jockeying for position among England’s aristocratic families are all in a day’s work for the Renaissance’s hardest-working Privy counselor.Īs Cromwell goes about the king’s business, he is troubled by more than these events. ![]() Days later, he is haunted by the memory of the late queen, as well as the five suitors who were also put to death for allegedly having consorted with her. Cromwell has just witnessed the execution of Anne Boleyn. The Mirror & the Light opens where Bring Up the Bodies left off. Even though we knew how this story ends, we still need Mantel to guide us through the final days of the relationship between Henry VIII and his most famous adviser. ![]() It’s been eight years since we last saw Thomas Cromwell, and Hilary Mantel fans have been waiting impatiently ever since. ![]()
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