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Hilary Mantel: How I wrote the end of the trilogy

Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker prize. She discusses the final book in her Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, with Andrew Marr. Hilary explains how the trilogy’s opening words β€œSo now get up” return in Cromwell’s final scene, as he crouches to be beheaded, and what plans she has to write more historical fiction.

First broadcast on Start the Week, 2 March 2020.

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7 minutes

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