An edition of An Experiment in Love (1995)

Experiment in Love

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Experiment in Love
Hilary Mantel, Hilary Mantel
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An edition of An Experiment in Love (1995)

Experiment in Love

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Carmel McBain is the only child of working-class Irish-Catholic parents. Her mother aspires to something more for her than what life in their depressed mill town has to offer. She is ambitious for her daughter, determined that she slip through England's rigid social barriers. And so, early on, she pushes Carmel, first to gain a scholarship to the local convent school, then to sit the exams for a place at London University.

And Carmel does not disappoint. But success carries with it a fearful price. It sets her on a lonely journey that will take her as far as possible from where she began, uprooting her from the ties of class and place, of family and faith. Uprooting her ultimately from her own self.

A coming-of-age novel, a memoir of a Catholic childhood, a piercing and witty look at social pretensions, a story of lost possibilities and girlhood betrayals: perhaps only a novelist of Hilary Mantel's enormous talents could have taken such material and shaped it into so fresh and arresting a tale.

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Experiment in Love
2010, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: An Experiment in Love
An Experiment in Love
July 15, 1997, Holt Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: An Experiment in Love
An Experiment in Love
1996, Penguin Books
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: An Experiment in Love
An Experiment in Love
1996, Henry Holt and Company
in English
Cover of: An experiment in love
An experiment in love
1996, H. Holt and Co.
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: An experiment in love
An experiment in love
1995, Viking
in English - 1st ed

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272

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OL39832646M
ISBN 13
9780007340880

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