An Experiment in Love

An Experiment in Love
Hilary Mantel

Following ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London.It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel’s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.

An Experiment in Love

Hilary Mantel

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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For Gerald

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u22635b59-b657-5a1f-8324-2bece4c428bf)

Copyright (#u3e088f40-591a-55cb-9278-ded569bd351b)

Dedication

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Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

P.S. (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

A Kind of Alchemy (#litres_trial_promo)

Life at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)

A Writing Life (#litres_trial_promo)

Read on (#litres_trial_promo)

Have You Read? (#litres_trial_promo)

Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (#litres_trial_promo)