'I've been waiting years for this’: midnight queues as The Mirror & the Light finally hits shelves
After an eight-year gap and more pre-orders than Atwood, readers are excited to get hold of new Hilary Mantel book – even while knowing how it ends
Almost 500 years after Thomas Cromwell was imprisoned in the Tower of London, the 1,000-year-old site was illuminated on Wednesday evening with an image marking the long-awaited release of the conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light.
On the other side of London, at Waterstones Piccadilly, hundreds of fans were queuing in the rain to be the first to get their hands on a copy of the novel – and to meet the author herself. Angela had already got stuck into her copy, and said she’d taken the day off work on Thursday to devote entirely to reading. “I want to go back to the 16th century.”
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