![]() ![]() ![]() I could have plucked just about any two lines out of her novels and shown that they do the same amount of work. Cutting off heads and a second morning meal are both prerogatives of the powerful in late-medieval England. With masterly dispatch, she thrusts us into the middle of the action, tells us exactly where we are, and makes us gasp at a conjunction of things that we would never have thought could occupy the same moral universe-that is, decapitation and a second breakfast. These are the first two sentences of The Mirror and the Light, the third volume of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell and the last book she published before she died on Thursday at the lamentably young age of 70. ![]() A sharp pang of appetite reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast, or perhaps an early dinner.” “Once the queen’s head is severed, he walks away. ![]()
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