Drum roll please.......

On sale on Thursday March 5

‘If you cannot speak the truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?´

Good question…

The wait is over. Hilary Mantel’s final volume of her trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights if power.

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.

As if that weren’t enough, here’s the interview with Hilary Mantel from The New York Times.