An Experiment In Love
by:
Hilary Mantel (author)
Following on from 'A Change in Climate', this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London.
Following on from 'A Change in Climate', this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007172887 (0007172885)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
Hilary Mantel's portrayal of the highly-charged interactions among young women contains traces of Tudor politics: powerplay, backstabbing and a very thin line between friends and enemies. The novel charts the coming-of-age of Carmel McBain, who many years later is sifting through her memory. Carmel ...
Eh. The book started okay, had a very interesting middle section, and then a kind of whatever ending. Not a bad read, but nothing to write home about. Enjoying Mantel's Wolf Hall more than I enjoyed this one so far.
Reminds me of Joyce Carol Oates' "I'll Take You There." Petty college tiffs, starving girls and life-long feuds.
Still in awe of Hilary Mantel's writing, but this one didn't grab me the same way her books have. Still a much better read than average. 31/2 stars really.
why: the cloud on Flork told me this is an author I'd like. I'm not up for the 500+-page "A Place of Greater Safety," so I'd like to try this one. Also, the pressures on women in early 1960's London interest me.
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