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A Change of Climate - by Hilary Mantel & Mantel (Paperback)

A Change of Climate - by  Hilary Mantel & Mantel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: United Kingdom: Viking, 1994.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ambitious and powerful. . .an extremely complex inquiry into the nature of good and evil. . .[a] wise, lyrical novel." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><p>"Witty, disturbing and memorable. . .smart, astringent, and marvelously upsetting." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>"[A] complex story, probing deeper questions of good and evil. . ..Mantel is an acute observer, fearless in exploring difficult subjects wherever they may lead her." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></p><p>"A darkly humorous book...encapsulating the push and pull between emotion and repression, self-sacrifice and self-deception, pragmatism and confusion, goodness and evil." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including <i>Wolf Hall</i>, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of <i>A Change of Climate</i>, <i>A Place of Greater Safety</i>, <i>Eight Months on Ghazzah Street</i>, <i>An Experiment in Love</i>, <i>The Giant, O'Brien</i>, <i>Fludd</i>, <i>Beyond Black</i>, <i>Every Day Is Mother's Day</i>, and <i>Vacant Possession</i>. She has also written a memoir, <i>Giving Up the Ghost</i>. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. She lives in England with her husband.</p>

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