Last book of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy creating waves in literary circuit

The last and final installment of much-acclaimed trilogy of Man Booker winning author Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has finally came out on March this year. The Mirror & The Light is the following of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies and centers around the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the lawmaker and powerful chief minister to King Henry VIII.

In the book Mantel described vividly the power-politics within the Court of King after the execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. After the death of Queen Anne in 1536, Cromwell rose to extreme power. He gained trust of King Henry after he helped him to annul the marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. In the process Cornwell also successfully undermined the opposition from the Church of England and engineered Henry to claim as the Supreme head of the Church in England. However, soon engrossed in his power and greed Cormwell started turning his own allies into enemies, starting with Anne Boleyn. His power starts fading soon after he arranged an unsuccessful marriage between Henry and Anne of Cleves. King Henry ordered execution of chief minister Cormwell for treason and heresy in 1540.

The book has been receiving loudly from critics and readers. While The New York Times called it “the triumphant capstone to Mantel’s trilogy, the Financial Times called it “majestic and often breathtakingly poetic.”. The Guardian described it as a “masterpiece” and called Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy “the greatest English novels of this century.”

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