A Change of Climate
Written by Hilary Mantel
Narrated by Sandra Duncan
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Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
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Reviews for A Change of Climate
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5last part about africa and return interestingwhole first half of book in present, do not know what happened in past, boring
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5About 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.