{"product_id":"the-mirror-the-light-thorndike-press-large-print-basic","title":"The Mirror \u0026 the Light (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"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 blacksmiths son from Putney emerges from the springs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth  while his formidable master  Henry VIII  settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to themale heir he most craves. 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 Henrys regime to the breaking point  Cromwells 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 \u0026amp; 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 mans vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict  passion  and courage\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987130249269,"sku":"ByrdShop_143287635X","price":45.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781432876357.jpg?v=1770926166","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-mirror-the-light-thorndike-press-large-print-basic","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}