About the Book: The Mirror and the Light: RSC Stage Adaptation
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyns fate has been sealed by a hired French
executioner. it now befalls Jane Seymour to deliver King Henry VIII the healthy
heir he craves. Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmiths son from the gutters of Putney,
has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of the
king, he is now the second most powerful man in England. But what will you do,
an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns
on everyone close to him?
Hilary Mantels twice Booker