THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bu ndled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmiths son from Putney emerges from the springs bloodba th to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his thi rd queen, Jane Seymour.Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on/ he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion...[Read more]