Hilary Mantel Ben Miles And George Miles - The Wolf Hall Picture Book - 2022 [EN]

They are images that exist in their own time and their own right. But they also prefigured the third novel, at that stage unwritten. They never return but fade into the land. For hours they must have lurked, keeping their distance, chins on their paws, drooling. They can stir me into crushed strawberries with elderberry wine. They are distilled into a spark, into an instant.