The Mirror and the Light: The conclusion to the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy, soon to be a major TV series

Some reviewers complained about the physical quality of the book they purchased. I bought the 4th Estate UK hardcover and the quality was excellent - paper quality excellent, no missing pages, etc. Since it is a large book, I bought the hardcover since a large paperback would have problems with the binding.The book itself is about an older Cromwell struggling to deal with a vicious court and an unstable, ruthless king. On the whole, I found it well written and Cromwell's flashbacks fitting. If you read the first 2 books, you should definitely read this.

I write this less than 100 pages to go but it's one of those books where I just don't want it to end. So detailed with human daily experience, in medieval sense, I feel like I could be there. And no more from an author who is now deceased. Grateful for the trilogy, Wolf Hall, Bringing up the Bodies, and this final Mirror & the Light

5 stelle per diversi motivi: consegnato prima del previsto, conforme a quanto descritto e con carattere leggibili senza fatica. Un romanzo che può appassionare, ben scritto .L'ultimo di una trilogia. Riguardo i primi due volumi ho visto la versione cinematografica della BBC, comprato sempre con Amazon. Una sorpresa gradita con attori convincenti.

Chegou rápido e perfeito

There is no way to do this book (or in fact, all three books of the trilogy) justice in a simple post. I am in awe of the world Hilary Mantel has created, of the distinct Cromwell voice that keeps on talking in my head. I knew I’d love this book, and I knew I’d struggle with it. She doesn’t spare the reader, and I needed to take a break halfway through it, but I wouldn’t have stopped for anything in the world.I more or less know my way around the Tudor era. Elizabeth I. has fascinated me since I was a teenager, but her father, Henry VIII., made me find my limits. There it is again, the sheer banality of evil, of an incompetent man with too much power. (Also, how did he manage to find several more wives after beheading first Anne Boleyn and then Catherine Howard, the clueless girl?)But by no means did I read this for Henry. I read it for Cromwell, and what a story it was.I might go back to it, someday in the far distance, but for now, I’m in dire need of something much lighter.