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Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire.

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Hilary mantel: Cromwell trilogy celebrated the finale as a 'masterpiece' by critics

Feb 16,2020 7:56 am

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expert Hilary Mantel ' s celebrated have the finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy as "magnificent" and "a masterpiece" prior to their publication in the next week.

The Mirror and The Light , says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, is "".

"Does it merit a different Booker [prize]? Yes, it works," says the London Evening Standard ' s critique of the sheath, the current is.

According to the Daily Mail , Anthony Cummins, but the 912-page Tome benefits might have little to edit.

"Even the insatiable appetite of the Tudor-junkie could be forgiven, a drooping eyelid," he says, from a book that he calls "" of the trilogy.

coat the series charts The Life of Cromwell, a blacksmith, the son, who rose from the darkness to Henry Viii 's most trusted advisors.

The saga started in 2009, Wolf Hall and continued with 2012's Bring up the bodies. Both went on to win The Man Booker Prize .

Starting with Anne Boleyn 's 1536 embodiment, The Mirror and The Light will continue Cromwell's story until his own execution four years later.

The result, "perhaps The Best of the trilogy, simply because there are more of them. "

Mark Rylance played Cromwell in the BBC's Wolf Hall drama

"As before, coat leaves us with exceptional skills in the teeming Tudor World ," says Pearson.

The author, she says, "has written an epic of English History , which does what The Aeneid did for the Roman, and war and peace for the Russians. "

mantle of the "remarkable" performance of rotated to have one of the biggest bastards in English History ". in a lively, sympathetic, almost to The Man is admirable. "

their latest, is "a novel of epic proportions, in every respect, exciting, propulsive, darkly funny and amazingly intelligent as his predecessors. "

The Mirror and The Light is published by Fourth Estate on 5. March.

The previous instalments in the trilogy have been adapted for both television and on the stage.

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