Un esperimento d’amore di Hilary Mantel (Fazi editore) è un libro molto particolare. Carmel McBain è una ragazza di origini irlandesi che cresce nell’Inghilterra degli anni Sessanta. Un esperimento d’amore è una sorta di romanzo di formazione perché la nostra protagonista e le sue amiche si trovano a fare i conti con l’emancipazione, il sesso, i contraccettivi, l’autodeterminazione… She is drawn to the world Julianne, the doctor's daughter, inhabits (the book begins with the memories set off by seeing Julia(nne)'s picture in the newspaper), but knows she has much in common with poor Karina as well.

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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)

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She has always existed on the margins: of her family, of her university group, of the expatriate communities in the Middle East and Africa, of literary London. The experience of being not quite at home, even when at home, has contributed to her life not only as a writer but as a reader. It is evident from her conversation, the bright life with which she invests her remarks about books and writers, that reading holds the same sort of status for her as writing. "If you grew up, as I did, a northerner, a Catholic, from an Irish family, you soon began to realise that there was this thing called 'Englishness', but it wasn't necessarily what you possessed. It was located somewhere else. It had different vowels. One of the things that engaged me right away about Kidnapped was that it wasn't written in 'English' English. I was not a Scot, but I could hear the language of Davie and Alan better than I could hear the dialect, the rhythms, of southern England." Anderson, Hephzibah (19 April 2009). "Hilary Mantel: on the path from pain to prizes". The Observer . Retrieved 30 July 2011. Marshall, Alex; Alter, Alexandra (23 September 2022). "Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70". The New York Times . Retrieved 23 September 2022. Mantel, Hilary (30 March 1989). "Diary: Bookcase Shopping in Jeddah". London Review of Books . Retrieved 26 September 2022.There are some brilliant details, the girls who hand-wash their boyfriend's shirts and hang them out to dry in the communal bathrooms, to prove that they are not only clever and pretty, but can look after their men, the hand-stitched clothes worn by the young Carmel that show the aspiration that every babyboomer's parent wants for her child – to have a better life, so that she’s not trapped in a marriage to a man she doesn’t love, cleaning houses and never having enough. Not your usual happy end, all the characters are marked by their complex and ultimately unsatisfactory relationships with each other.