'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'Įngland, May 1536. The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021 'She was a joy to work with… That we won’t have the pleasure of any more of her words is unbearable.Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 He added: 'As a person, Hilary was kind and generous and loving, always a great champion of other writers. Nicholas Pearson, Mantel's long-term editor, said the news of her death was 'devastating' for all those who knew and worked with her.

Our thoughts go out to her beloved husband Gerald, family and friends.' He added: 'We will miss her immeasurably, but as a shining light for writers and readers she leaves an extraordinary legacy. 'She will be remembered for her enormous generosity to other budding writers, her capacity to electrify a live audience, and the huge array of her journalism and criticism, producing some of the finest commentary on issues and books.' He said: 'Her wit, stylistic daring, creative ambition and phenomenal historical insight mark her out as one of the greatest novelists of our time. Heath, said it had been the 'greatest privilege' to work with her. It was a critical success and won several awards, including three BAFTAs and a Golden Globe.ĭame Hilary also published several other novels and short story collections over the years, including the Every Day is Mother's Day series and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost in 2003.īill Hamilton, Dame Hilary's agent at literary agency A.M. The story was also adapted into a BBC Two TV series which was broadcast in 2015, starring Sir Mark Rylance as Cromwell.

In 2021, The Mirror & The Light was staged in London, having been adopted by Dame Hilary, and Cromwell being played by Ben Miles. Her work was later adapted for stage and screen, with the Royal Shakespeare Company putting on productions of the first two books in 2013. The trilogy, which has been translated into 41 languages and sold more than five million copies worldwide, charts the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. Dame Hilary concluded the Wolf Hall trilogy in 2020 with the publication of the critically acclaimed The Mirror & The Light, winning the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which she also won for Wolf Hall.

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