Title: The Mirror and the Light
Description: The Mirror & The Light is a historical novel by English writer Hilary Mantel. Following [Wolf Hall](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) (2009) and [Bring Up the Bodies](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16547664W) (2012), it is the final instalment in her trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister in the court of King Henry VIII, covering the last four years of his life, from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540.

Mantel's twelfth novel, her first in almost eight years, The Mirror & The Light was published in March 2020 to widespread critical acclaim, and enjoyed brisk sales. In December 2020, Emily Temple of Literary Hub reported that the novel had made 13 lists of the best books of 2020. It won 2021 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Historical fiction, fiction, history, Courts and courtiers, literary fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2020-03-29, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, Court and courtiers
Places: Great Britain, Putney, Tower Hill, London, Shaftesbury, Calais, Tower of London
People: Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, George Boleyn, Henry Norris, Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton, Gregory Cromwell, Mercy Prior, Rafe Sadler, Richard Cromwell, Thomas Avery, Thurston, Dick Purser, Jenneke, Christophe, Mathew, Bastings, Edward, Henry Fitzroy, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Katherine Howard, Margaret Douglas, William Butts, Walter Cromer, John Chambers, Hans Holbein, Sexton, Edward Seymour, Margery Seymour, Thomas Seymour, Elizabeth Seymour, Thomas Wriothesley, Stephen Gardiner, Richard Riche, Thomas Audley, Thomas Cranmer, Robert Barnes, Hugh Latimer, Richard Sampson, Cuthbert Tunstall, John Stokesley, Edmund Bonner, John Lambert, Thomas Howard, Henry Howard, Mary Howard, Charles Brandon, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Wyatt, Bess Darrell, William Fitzwilliam, Nicholas Carew, Eliza Carew, Francis Bryan, Thomas Culpeper, Philip Hoby, Jane Rochford, Thomas Boleyn, Mary Shelton, Mary Mounteagle, Nan Zouche, Katherine Parr, Henry Bouchier, John Shelton, Anne Shelton, Lady Bryan, Elizabeth Zouche, Dorothea Wolsey, Henry Courtenay, Gertrude Courtenay, Margaret Pole, Henry Lord Montague, Reginald Pole, Geoffrey Pole, Constance Pole, Eustache Chapuys, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Jean de Dinteville, Louis de Perreau, Antoine de Castelnau, Charles de Marillac, Hochsteden, Olisleger, Harst, Lord Lisle, Honor Lisle, Anne Bassett, John Husee, William Kingston, Walsingham, Martin, Humphrey Monmouth, Robert Packington, Stephen Vaughan, Margaret Vernon, John Bale
Time periods: 1536-1540