![]() ![]() The poor, lonely man – the astute, wary man. I felt so sorry for “Thomas Cromwell”, the abused, runaway boy who becomes a rich and educated man, but whose life is in the hands of the increasingly deranged king. ![]() *Characters’ names given in quotation marks. ![]() Sometimes, it was a moment so spine-chilling that it stayed with me for ages. Sometimes nothing much happened, “Cromwell” just thought about something, or reminisced, or it might be a conversation between other characters, or a description of one of “Henry VIII’s” queens’ dresses. Every time I opened the book for another chapter or two, I was plunged into the world of “Thomas Cromwell” and the intricacies of his life. So Mantel did not only carry out this feat of creativity once, but three times, with the same effect each time of immersing the reader deeply into the period in which the novel is set, and into the lives of the characters who are depicted with a high degree of historical accuracy. The main characters are again, as in the previous novels in the trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, “Thomas Cromwell”* and “King Henry VIII”* of England. The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel (Publisher: Harper Collins Canada, publishing date: Mapaperback 912 pages all included) ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |