Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for stage
Mantel had to collaborate remotely with actor Ben Miles to transform latest book into stage production Yes they are fiction and yes historians get irritated that students read them as incontrovertible fact, but Dame Hilary Mantel maintains that you won't go far wrong in understanding Tudor intrigue if you read her bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy. "I have to say, I think I've given Thomas Cromwell a better audience, a b…