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title: "A Change of Climate: A Novel"
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# A Change of Climate: A Novel

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- **What is this?** A Change of Climate: A Novel by hilary mantel
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## Customer Reviews

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    A SECRET MASTERPIECE
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2014*

There is something about this book, which may now be out of print but is available used. Mantel writes so perfectly, it is humbling to me, an aspiring writer. Every word is fraught—every word "tells." The whole book centers around a secret incident that does not happen until about 2/3 way through the book but there are few authorial signals of what will come in the book (it has already happened in terms of the books time sequence). She lets the writing do the talking, in a careful, understated way. There is never a "look at what a great writer I am" sentence. Maybe the only weakness is that you don't realize what a masterpiece this is until is has had time to grow on you.No need here to rehearse the plot. You can get that elsewhere. I would just say the main focus is on how a marriage unravels, maybe was never "raveled" in the first place.Mantel has become quite famous since she wrote this but I have deliberately not read her mega sellers of Wolf Hall and Bringing Out The Bodies precisely because I just don't think they can compare with the small scale and perfect nuance of this book. I read this many years ago, recently re-read it, and now feel I must read it at least every year.If you read it, you will love it. It is raw and real in such a beautiful way. I think it should be a mainstay in Contemporary Literature classes. I bought both the hardback (used) and the Kindle edition so I could read it at night without turning on the bedside lamp and disturbing my wife.

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    Just couldn't get through it.
  

*by 0***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2020*

I've enjoyed Hillary Mantel's other books.  I tried to read this one several years ago, but ditched it.  Decided to try again ... at 22% I am asking myself why I am spending my precious reading time on something that has me saying "what??" "huh?"  or worse.  Not a minute of enjoyment so I will have to stop.  Too many books on my list to be bogged down wondering why in the world .....

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    Want to See the Heart of Darkness?
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2012*

Having read about some of the atrocities committed in the Rwanda wars between the Hutus and the Tutsis, I didn't expect to be shocked by anything in this novel.  But reader beware:  this novel contains some appalling violence.  It is so shocking, or was to me, that it overbalanced the story, and I doubt if that is what Mantel intended to do.  But then again, maybe she did.  A theme of the book is evolution, and from the events depicted, it is clear that not everyone has evolved all that much from the days of the dinosaurs [not that they co-existed anyway, Alley Oop notwithstanding].  I have asked around a bit, to try to find out if such practices actually happened, but I don't know anyone who knows the tribal practices that well.  So in this novel you see English middle-class gentility juxtaposed against the mores of the bush, and one man's determination, despite what he knows of "the evil that lurks in the heart of man" to do what he can to help others, however futile, whatever the cost to his own family.  In view of the title, we may be asked to think that civility is largely a matter of climate --and it well may be.  Hey -- a great choice for your book club!

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