Look at that face. Before I found this photo on Amazon I had imagined Hilary Mantel as dark and studious, but she's a pixie, an mischievous elf, with upturned eyes and a wry and slightly wicked smile. Which matches my enormous pleasure in reading a 2007 novel of hers called An Experiment in Love which is absolutely not what it seems. The title would appeal to Siri Husveldt readers, something evocative and soulful. But this book is about young women as friends and foes, living together in the 1950s in a university residence in London and the book has the most remarkable Roald Dahlish denouement. Read it and find out.After Wolf Hall and now this, I'm a dedicated fan.
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