How long does it take to read The Mirror and the Light?
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel takes about 15 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 50 minutes
A long haul
First published 2020. 864 pages, about 237,600 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Mirror & The Light is a historical novel by English writer Hilary Mantel. Following Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012), it is the final instalment in her trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, minister in the court of King Henry VIII, covering the last four years of his life, from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540. Mantel's twelfth novel, her first in almost eight years, The Mirror & The Light was published in March 2020 to widespread critical acclaim, and enjoyed brisk sales. In December 2020, Emily Temple of Literary Hub reported that the novel had made 13 lists of the best books of 2020. It won 2021 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Historical fiction, fiction, history, Courts and courtiers
