![]() ![]() ![]() Neither, however, overtook Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchmen, which sold 168,455 print copies in its first week in 2015. The Mirror and the Light is also on track to overtake sales of Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, which sold 103,177 copies in its first five days. The first two books have sold more than 1.5m copies around the world. Bolstered by two Booker prize wins, a West End play and a BBC miniseries Wolf Hall made Mantel the first Booker winner to win the UK overall No 1 spot. ![]() The fortunes of Mantel’s trilogy have been nowhere near as turbulent. ![]() Widely praised by critics, a good number of whom predicted that it will win Mantel her third Booker prize, the 900-page novel follows Cromwell’s final ascent to unprecedented riches and honour in the service of King Henry VIII, before his abrupt fall from royal favour and public execution at Tower Hill in 1540. The new novel follows 2009’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies to complete Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ![]()
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