A Change of Climate
MANTEL, Hilary
A Change of Climate
London: Viking, 1994
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered in silver to spine; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£15.00); with a black and white photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer to the lower flap; pp. [x], 342; a contemporary ownership name and date to the title page, else fine in fine wrapper.
First UK edition, stated, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by Mantel to the title page.
A novel about secrets and their impact upon the Eldreds - a seemingly normal family living in a large house in Norfolk. Having left Africa twenty years ago, where they served as missionaries, the protagonists Ralph and Anna struggle to keep the shadow of their past under wraps - a history littered with betrayal, loss and something “so evil, so desolating, that [they] don’t ever speak of it”
Mantel had travelled to Botswana in the 1970s, where she had come to hear about a series of ‘medicine murders’ and kidnap, both of which inspired her to write this, her fourth novel. She later claimed that the book was the hardest she had ever written, though this comment was made before she embarked on the journey that was ‘Wolf Hall’.
In a 1994 review for The Independant, Michael Dibdin wrote that the book was “her most uncompromising novel to date…a brave attempt to tackle issues central to our lives but disturbingly peripheral to much of our literature.”
A lovely copy.
"Forgetting is an art like other arts, It needs dedication and practice."
MANTEL, Hilary
A Change of Climate
London: Viking, 1994
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered in silver to spine; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£15.00); with a black and white photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer to the lower flap; pp. [x], 342; a contemporary ownership name and date to the title page, else fine in fine wrapper.
First UK edition, stated, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by Mantel to the title page.
A novel about secrets and their impact upon the Eldreds - a seemingly normal family living in a large house in Norfolk. Having left Africa twenty years ago, where they served as missionaries, the protagonists Ralph and Anna struggle to keep the shadow of their past under wraps - a history littered with betrayal, loss and something “so evil, so desolating, that [they] don’t ever speak of it”
Mantel had travelled to Botswana in the 1970s, where she had come to hear about a series of ‘medicine murders’ and kidnap, both of which inspired her to write this, her fourth novel. She later claimed that the book was the hardest she had ever written, though this comment was made before she embarked on the journey that was ‘Wolf Hall’.
In a 1994 review for The Independant, Michael Dibdin wrote that the book was “her most uncompromising novel to date…a brave attempt to tackle issues central to our lives but disturbingly peripheral to much of our literature.”
A lovely copy.
"Forgetting is an art like other arts, It needs dedication and practice."
MANTEL, Hilary
A Change of Climate
London: Viking, 1994
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered in silver to spine; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£15.00); with a black and white photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer to the lower flap; pp. [x], 342; a contemporary ownership name and date to the title page, else fine in fine wrapper.
First UK edition, stated, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by Mantel to the title page.
A novel about secrets and their impact upon the Eldreds - a seemingly normal family living in a large house in Norfolk. Having left Africa twenty years ago, where they served as missionaries, the protagonists Ralph and Anna struggle to keep the shadow of their past under wraps - a history littered with betrayal, loss and something “so evil, so desolating, that [they] don’t ever speak of it”
Mantel had travelled to Botswana in the 1970s, where she had come to hear about a series of ‘medicine murders’ and kidnap, both of which inspired her to write this, her fourth novel. She later claimed that the book was the hardest she had ever written, though this comment was made before she embarked on the journey that was ‘Wolf Hall’.
In a 1994 review for The Independant, Michael Dibdin wrote that the book was “her most uncompromising novel to date…a brave attempt to tackle issues central to our lives but disturbingly peripheral to much of our literature.”
A lovely copy.
"Forgetting is an art like other arts, It needs dedication and practice."