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    A Change of Climate

    Written by Hilary Mantel

    Narrated by Sandra Duncan

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    About this audiobook

    Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. But the constant flood of 'good souls and sad cases' welcomed into their home hides the growing crises in their own family. From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
    ISBN9781407488370
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    A Change of Climate
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    Hilary Mantel

    HILARY MANTEL was the author of the bestselling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving Up the Ghost, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.

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    • 4/5
      This is my fifth Mantel read after being a late starter. I'm starting to think of her books as Cromwell Mantel and Other Mantel, as her writing style seems really quite different between the two.A Change of Climate is the tale of a previously very settled marriage in crisis interspersed with the tale of the couple's time as missionaries in Africa when they were first married. The African tale is necessary to later understand perhaps why things have ended up as they have, but I really didn't warm to these chapters as much as the modern day chapters in rural England. They seemed to interrupt my flow of enjoyment of the narrative.I feel a bit ambivalent towards this one. I enjoyed it enough and turned the pages quite happily, but I'm not sure that I'm going to sing it's praises.3.5 stars - a good enough read, but not my favourite Mantel to date.
    • 5/5
      Just brilliant. Family complexity, ethics, infidelity, parenting, unbearable grief, the brutality of people and nations, and the things we all hide from each other and - mostly - from ourselves. The exploration of how the best intentions, the most earnest choices to do good, can not only fail but bring about anguish may seem bleak, but there is also courage, tenacity, grit, and decency.Mantel writes the way I wish I could: I am mesmerized by the way she sculpts scenes and dialog, shapes chapters, and turns what lesser writers (mea culpa) would drop as "info-dumps." I remember when we watched the TV production of Wolf Hall, we marveled at how a long scene consisting simply of people standing in a room talking to each other could be so compelling and tense. That of course could be partly due to the brilliance of Mark Rylance, Claire Foy, and Damian Lewis, but Mantel can do it just on the page. I stand in awe.
    • 3/5
      last part about africa and return interestingwhole first half of book in present, do not know what happened in past, boring
    • 4/5
      I have just recently discovered Hilary Mantel so am such a fan that I think I would enjoy anything she has written. More than just telling a story, she creates an atmosphere, aka "climate," and the reader becomes immersed in the world of the characters. What more can an author hope to do.
    • 3/5
      About the Bantu Education Act, a prophecy of the present: " In twenty years' time, or in forty years' time, when this idiocy is over, how will you put wisdom into heads that have been deprived of it?"" He made a discovery, common to those who expatriate themselves and then return that when he and Anna went abroad they had ceased to be regarded as real people.