WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Listen to the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, and was personally cast by the author. This edition includes a bonus conversation between Ben Miles and Hilary Mantel. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. “You'll frequently hit the rewind button to fully appreciate the many, many perfect passages.” IRISH TIMES “Actor Ben Miles played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, making him the perfect choice to narrate the remarkable final instalment in the Man Booker Prize-winning trilogy.” VOGUE
© 2020 W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781528880008
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 5 mars 2020
WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Listen to the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, and was personally cast by the author. This edition includes a bonus conversation between Ben Miles and Hilary Mantel. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. “You'll frequently hit the rewind button to fully appreciate the many, many perfect passages.” IRISH TIMES “Actor Ben Miles played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, making him the perfect choice to narrate the remarkable final instalment in the Man Booker Prize-winning trilogy.” VOGUE
© 2020 W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781528880008
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 5 mars 2020
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Rune
30 apr. 2020
Jag är slagen till golvet. Jag vet hur det slutar men läser ändå frenetiskt med hopp om ett annat slut. Thomas Cromwell var inte mycket mer levande när han var levande. Vilken litterär prestation!
Gunnel
4 feb. 2022
Fantastisk historisk roman. Del 1 på svenska, del 2&3 på engelska. Underbar uppläsare.
Y.F
26 aug. 2021
I LOVE IT!! This trilogy is up there with LOTR and GoT - but it’s very different because it’s based on a true story. It doesn’t matter that you know the end - it’s the telling of the story that is amazing.
Ruth
17 feb. 2021
Brilliant.
Kristin
13 juli 2020
This is an outstanding book. The whole trilogy is masterfully read and “acted” so that all the characters come to life. Just plunge in to it. I have now listened to the whole trilogy for a second time and it was even better this time. There are many characters to relate to and to remember. But you can find more about the major players on Wikipedia which helps. It will be difficult to find any book as good as these three.
Familjen
9 aug. 2023
Lysande!
Andy
13 juni 2020
Very good!
Elisabeth
6 sep. 2020
A simply brilliant book. Insightful on an otherwise unfavourably depicted historical personality. Such detail on the hardships and general conditions in 1500s daily life in England, one can smell the stench and feel the pain. A bit too long, but I enjoyed it.
Louise
18 aug. 2020
Underbar! Det är en fascinerande del av historien berättad på ett levande och fängslande sätt. Jag är ledsen över att ha kommit till slutet.
Brita
4 sep. 2020
Extraordinär!
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