04732cam a2200529 4500 522736597 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427289520 1427289522 6ed9c0eb-902e-471b-957b-de261e0ebee4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4749810 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mantel, Hilary. The Mirror & the Light [Libby] : Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3. Macmillan Audio, 2020. English authors. audiobooks. Tudor. 16th century. Women Authors. 8th. biographical fiction. medieval historical fiction. British Royalty. historical fiction best sellers. Renaissance England. booker prize winners. henry the eighth. wolf hall tv series. king henry viii of england. thomas cromwell trilogy. The TLS best books of the year 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 1049MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 1049MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:"The many listeners enthralled by the earlier two volumes in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy will find all their expectations met in this final installment... Here is a narrative achievement of the highest order." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner This program is read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies *This program includes a bonus conversation between Ben Miles and Hilary Mantel* "If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, 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. The story begins in 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, 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, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, 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 the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune's wheel turns, Cromwell's enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry's cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell's journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Miles, Ben. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4749810-TheMirror&TheLight.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6ed9c0eb-902e-471b-957b-de261e0ebee4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4749810-TheMirror&TheLight.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6ed9c0eb-902e-471b-957b-de261e0ebee4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)