An Experiment in Love
  • Published:
    May-1996 (Hardcover)
    Jul-1997 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    256
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing accounts of her current position as a university student with recollections of her childhood and an ever difficult relationship with her longtime schoolmate Karina, Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring the power of men, but fearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. 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 too successful--in England's complex hierarchy of class and status.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jul-1997
    • Harcourt
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 080505202X
    • ISBN13: 9780805052022
    •  
    • Jun-2007
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312426879
    • ISBN13: 9780312426873
    •  
    • Mar-2010
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0007172885
    • ISBN13: 9780007172887
    • First Edition
    • May-1996
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805044272
    • ISBN13: 9780805044270
    •  
    • Apr-2007
    • Henry Holt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1429900598
    • ISBN13: 9781429900591
    •  
    • Apr-2010
    • Holt Paperbacks
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Apr-2010
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0007354924
    • ISBN13: 9780007354924
    •  
    • Aug-1996
    • Chivers Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0745127614
    • ISBN13: 9780745127613
    •  
    • Dec-2011
    • Whole Story Audiobooks
    • Audible



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