An Experiment in Love

Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review

Double Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel—but not be too successful—in England's complex hierarchy of class and status.

It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London Un...