Hilary Mantel, novelist

[Ash Armstrong]

The final paragraph of The Mirror and the Light.

[Ash Armstrong]

[Ash Armstrong]

Gee whizz. Have been gearin' up to read her trilogy. After readin' about the Gentry and the Reformation, Restoration. Great fiction can make you understand history.

I've read Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, but not the final volume, though I have a hardback copy I bought on publication. No idea why I didn't read it during lockdown...I've done a lot of historical research into the English Reformation and its players.
I've read her Fludd, which was quirky and fun, and her novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety is superb.

[Gilly Goodness]

Gee whizz. Have been gearin' up to read her trilogy. After readin' about the Gentry and the Reformation, Restoration. Great fiction can make you understand history.

[Ash Armstrong]

Very sad news.