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Hilary Mantel: The Mirror & the Light (Hardcover, 2020, Henry Holt and Company) 4 stars

“If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”

England, May …

Review of 'The Mirror & the Light' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

It took me close to a year to finish this one -- I grabbed the Kindle version shortly after getting my Paperwhite. Wolf Hall was one of my first Kindle ebooks back in the day. Like Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, I thoroughly enjoyed the imagery, the details of England in the reign of Henry VIII; however, it's a long book (over 700 pages) and the cast of characters as usual was hard to track at times, and slowed me down. I also was of course dreading Cromwell's inevitable downfall and execution, which was rapid, although foreshadowed in numerous ways in the previous years before.