its readers change, going forward with us into the future'
Guardian'
The most masterful story telling imaginable' Graham Norton
'The final book in the trilogy charts [Cromwell's] inexorable downfall with the dark brilliance and profound humanity that makes it, like its forerunners,
a masterpiece'
Daily Mail'Ambitious, compassionate, clear-eyed yet emotional, passionate and pragmatic,
The Mirror & the Light lays down a marker for historical fiction that will set the standard for generations to come'
Independent'It's the crowning glory of a towering achievement'
Mail on Sunday'This is a must-read'
Good Housekeeping'On closing the book
I wept as I've not wept over a novel since I was a child . . . Mantel struck her spear against the flint of Thomas Cromwell, and lit such a candle in England as will never go out'
Telegraph, Sarah Perry,
'A masterpiece . . . Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . .
Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century'
Observer, Stephanie Merritt
