On the Nightstand: The Mirror & the Light

I’d been meaning to read Wolf Hall, the first in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, for years. Then it turned out my friend MEG was a fan, so I borrowed her copy about a year ago and was hooked. I didn’t know much about Cromwell before this (though I could have named you all of Henry VIII’s wives–remember that old rhyme, “Two beheaded/two died/one divorced/one survived”?).


Now you may ask how does this, the final novel in the trilogy, fit into spiritual reading? I think it’s all in...