Happy Birthday Hilary Mantel!
Happy Birthday Hilary Mantel!
Happy Birthday Hilary Mantel!
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL (6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.
Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.[6] The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies. [bio via wikipedia]
I know we have a lot of Mantel readers amongst us, so tell me: which installment of the Cromwell Trilogy did you enjoy the most? And, of course, why?