The Mirror and the Light by Hillary Mantel is the third book in her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. I loved the first two--Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies--this one not as much. Here we see Cromwell at the height of his power as Henry VIII's closest advisor. This book was slow-moving. One Amazon reviewer likened it to plodding through mud. We get a lot of English history, a lot of Cromwell's memories of his abusive father and finally in the last quarter of the book, the pace picks up and we see Cromwell's fall and his beheading. The book has gotten some wonderful reviews. Her first two both won the Booker Prize. Maybe this one will, too, if the judges have time to read it.
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