His thoughts turn increasingly to the miserable childhood he has sought to leave behind and to his happy years in Antwerp and Florence, where he discovered a new world that offered a blacksmith’s son from Putney the chance to get ahead on the basis of brains and ferocious ambition. In “ The Mirror and the Light,” as Cromwell grapples with aristocratic foes who want to send him to the same fate, his own inner voices clamor for attention. The dead have been slowly gathering around him since his mentor, Cardinal Wolsey, died in 2009’s “ Wolf Hall.” Their voices grew insistent in “ Bring up the Bodies,” when the moral consequences of Cromwell’s allegiance to King Henry VIII became apparent as he railroaded Anne Boleyn and five personal enemies to execution so that Henry could marry Jane Seymour. Stay connected with The Mirror newspaper app.The past catches up with Thomas Cromwell in the searing finale of Hilary Mantel’s magnificent trilogy.
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