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The battle cry is ''Sauve qui peut!''" Be the first to ask a question about An Experiment in Love Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. It gets a lot better as the story warms up. Hilary Mantel has an beautiful writing style. Unless they were "Sophys" for whom university had always been a holding pen before marriage, the rest were experimenting or if not, experiments for their peers who preferred to watch. Even though An Experiment in Love was her seventh novel, it feels semi-autobiographical. The novel follows Carmel's first year at university, while also evoking her childhood. This was a fine novel for me. Picador. Other girls end up dealing with pregnancy, abortion comes into play, money issues while in college. Our growing community has already started this experience with our original system. The item you've selected was not added to your cart. Free shipping .

An Experiment in Love is Carmel's story of her childhood somewhere near Manchester.

An Experiment in Love Hilary Mantel Snippet view - 1995. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. Anorexia is a major theme.

The only fair way of giving an idea of the quality of the writing would be to quote the entire book, but here is an example, at a point where a minor character comes back to the dorm after her abortion:"Her child must vanish into the blank badlands of never-was: very different, of course, from the glittering realm of might-have-been". All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of it's content suppliers and protected by US and international copyright laws.

But success carries with it a fearful price.

Ambiguous ending. I enjoyed Wolf Hall, and I have Mantel's long novel set during the French revolution on my shelf. It's the experience of a working-class Catholic girl from the north of England being pushed into academic success by her ambitious mother in the late 1960s to 1970. Should be okay but it's not, not at all. Very minimal wear and tear. Karina's streak of malevolence is more than a little destructive. Hilary Mantel has an beautiful writing style. Hilary Mantel. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Maybe I missed a sub-text but I think that the title "An experiment in Love" is ill-conceived and a tad misleading.

The comedy falls flat. A coming of age story set in Lancashire and London about a girl set the task of overcoming her pinched and draconian background.

Loved it!

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. There is comeuppance and tragedy...and the book haunts you. As Margaret Atwood describes the scene in her NYT review of what she calls "a haunting book": "The playing field is England, with its bafflingly complex and minutely calibrated systems of class and status, of region and religion; the players are little girls, larger girls, young women and, looming huge over all, mothers. Carmel was forced to be her friend by her motheI really like Hilary Mantel's books- they are dark and quirky, and this one is no exception. “With all its brilliance, its sharpness, and its clear-eyed wit, An Experiment in Love is a haunting book.” ― Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review “Mantel has several points in common with Graham Greene: she can make your flesh creep with horror and especially with the apprehension of it.” ― New York Review of Books

Had I read it without the others as touchstones, I think I would have given this book a higher rating. When these bright but confused young women land in late 1960s London, they are confronted with a slew of new preoccupations--sex, politics, food, and fertility--and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own.Hilary Mantel's magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel--but not be Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.“With all its brilliance, its sharpness, and its clear-eyed wit, “Mantel has several points in common with Graham Greene: she can make your flesh creep with horror and especially with the apprehension of it.” —Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including But this is the novel she wrote before she tuned all her instruments. Carmel was forced to be her friend by her mother.. Now, at University Carmel wants to break free, from her background, from the person she used to be.

Accompanying her is Karina, a longtime schoolmate who has been selected as a 'friend' by their mothers.

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