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An Experiment in Love (Paperback)

by Hilary Mantel (Author)

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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 May 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140243755
ISBN-13: 978-0140243758
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Follows on from "A Change of Climate". Carmel, Karina and Julianne are escaping the dreary north for a London University hall of residence in 1970. Awaiting them is a winter of new preoccupations - sex and politics, food and fertility - and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leaves you wanting more, 14 May 2003

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Like the starving heroine, I was left wanting more by this enigmatic but excellent book. In an antidote to the usual "take three girls" formula, we follow the school and university careers of Carmel, Karina and Julianne, three pupils from a northern convent who all end up in the same grim University residence in London. Without ever becoming friends or understanding each other, the girls are thrown together into a penny-pinching student existence in their all-female enclave, playing out an ultimately tragic tale of envy, competition, appetite and self-denial.

The author obviously feels there is great injustice in the lives of these girls, and this gives her always excellent writing a particular energy. The flashbacks to the girls' schooldays, and the relationships between Carmel and Karina and their mothers, are particularly well done.

More than just a story, this book explores the broader themes of girls' education and ambitions, and how they can be thwarted both by society and by nature. Although the ending is downright strange and I really wanted to know more about some of the characters' motivations, I found this to be a truly original and compelling book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought, 25 Jun 2003

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This is my favourite among Hilary Mantel's books. It will strike a special chord with women brought up in the 60s and 70s in England. The themes of education versus hormones and indulgence versus repression are woven through the book in a very interesting way. It is not always an easy read, and I sometimes wish that we had more explicit information about the characters' motivations (particularly Karina's) - but I think it's that slightly mysterious quality that has made me re-read it several times.

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1.0 out of 5 stars self-hating rubbish, 29 Jan 2000

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What I learned from this book: thin girls are beautiful, fragile, and good; fat girls are ugly, and either stupid (Claire) or evil (Karina); all men are the same, cookie-cutter bastards; and anorexia is not an all-consuming compulsion, but the result of being too busy with your school work and embroidery (I kid you not) to remember to eat. Why read this, when there's so much else out there?

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