Get a first look at one of the biggest literary events of 2020.

Hilary Mantelis getting ready for readers to see theLight.

But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin?

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Do the dead continually unbury themselves?

Bring Up the Bodieswaspublished in 2012, makingMirroran eight-years-in-the-making follow-up.

Check it out below.

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Henry Holt

The novel publishes March 10, 2020, and isavailable for pre-order.