![]() But when you read Mantel’s books - 2009’s Wolf Hall, 2012’s Bring Up the Bodies, and now The Mirror and the Light - talking about that death feels as though it might be a spoiler, because Mantel’s genius as an author is to make the past feel as though it is happening right now. Saying that Cromwell dies at the end is not really a spoiler, because it happened 480 years ago, and it’s on his Wikipedia page. The book ends as it had to: with Cromwell’s execution. ![]() And last week, the final volume of Mantel’s trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, arrived at last. But for the past 11 years, Cromwell has lived again, inside Hilary Mantel’s lavish and immersive Wolf Hall trilogy and its spinoff properties ( a TV show, a play). He was executed on the king’s orders for treason and heresy. ![]() ![]() The historical Thomas Cromwell, chief adviser to King Henry VIII, died in 1540. ![]()
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