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The wolf hall trilogy7/6/2023 This interview begins with Big Weekend of Books host Natasha Mitchell handing listeners over to Kate Evans for a very special hour with Hilary Mantel. Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies both won the Booker Prize, the first time a sequel has ever done so. And after millions of words from the point of view of this character, how on Earth did she write that death scene? Hilary Mantel spoke to Kate Evans for the Big Weekend of Books in 2020, about what it means to imagine your way into the past, with a character for whom this was a vital present. She spent thousands of pages writing from inside the perspective of this complicated man: the son of a blacksmith who ended up right-hand man to a capricious king, Henry VIII - a king with a tendency to dispatch those no longer of use to him.Īnd in the final book in the trilogy - The Mirror and the Light - Thomas Cromwell will end up on a scaffold, beheaded, in 1540. Mantel was an essayist, memoirist and novelist, best known for her historical Wolf Hall series on the life of Tudor lawyer and statesman Thomas Cromwell. The Mirror & the Light: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy, 3). English writer Hilary Mantel has sadly died, aged 70. Wolf Hall by Mantel, Hilary and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles.
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