The Mirror & the Light
British novelist, 1952–2022. Won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012, the Costa Novel Award in 2012 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2010 and 2021.
The Mirror & the Light is a 2020 novel by Hilary Mantel. It won the Walter Scott Prize in 2021.
On 3 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Hilary Mantel
- First published
- 2020
- Length
- 912 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2020
- Walter Scott Prize winner, 2021
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2021
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Political
- Series
- Book 3 of The Wolf Hall trilogy
Is The Mirror & the Light worth reading?
3 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Walter Scott Prize and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2021) | Winner | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2020) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Mirror & the Light
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2021), 912 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2021)
- Pages
- 912
- ISBN
- 9780007481002
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Mirror & the Light
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 47% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like The Mirror & the Light
If you liked The Mirror & the Light, try Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies or Midnight's Children.
