Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
169 followers · 331 posts · Server aus.socialWonderful (non-spoiler) lines from #HilaryMantel's #TheMirrorAndTheLight. Midway through the novel (#audiobook version), in a flashback, Thomas Cromwell reflects on his daughter Anne, who died in childhood (early in the first novel, #WolfHall):
Anne is a child who grizzles and wails, a trouble for the wet nurse...
"For Gawd's sake, daughter, can't you read a book."
"Not yet, when I'm six."
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Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
66 followers · 109 posts · Server aus.social"Once [King Henry VIII] had grasped what he was being told he had shouted at the top of his voice that the business should be kept quiet." ~ #TheMirrorAndTheLight by #HilaryMantel 👑 #books #Tudors
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Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
66 followers · 109 posts · Server aus.social
Just finished listening to the second instalment of #HilaryMantel's #WolfHall trilogy, #BringUpTheBodies, on #Audible. Can't wait to start the final, #TheMirrorAndTheLight, also narrated by #BenMiles. ❤️ #books #audiobooks
#hilarymantel #WolfHall #bringupthebodies #audible #themirrorandthelight #benmiles #books #audiobooks