A Change of Climate, Hilary Mantel
A Change of Climate, Hilary Mantel
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A Change of Climate

Author: Hilary Mantel

Narrator: Sandra Duncan

Unabridged: 12 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/21/2013

Synopsis

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.

About Hilary Mantel

English author, Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, was born in Glossop, Derbyshire in 1952. She attended St. Charles Roman Catholic primary school in the mill village of Hadfield. Her parents were actually Irish descent, but were born in England. Mantel's father divorced her mother and left when she was eleven years old. She never saw him again. Her mother did not marry, but spent her life with Jack Mantel, from whom Hilary took his name as her surname. Her schooling ended with a bachelor's degree in Jurisprudence in 1973. She then worked in social work in a geriatric hospital.

Her books include historical fiction, including a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell's rise to power under King Henry VIII. They were Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light (which was just released in the UK in March of 2020). She twice won the Booker Award.

In keeping with her unconventional life, Hilary married Gerald McEwen, a geologist in 1972, and they lived in exotic places such as Botswana and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They were divorced after he gave up geology to be her business manager, but then remarried.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Praveen on April 17, 2017

"Forgetting is an art like other arts, It needs dedication and practice." The title of the first page of this book is 'SAD CASES, GOOD SOULS' 1970' and just below it on the left corner of the page, I had written, in feeble black, by a graphite pencil, a date on which I started reading this novel. It......more

Goodreads review by Katie on January 16, 2020

What happens to a family when they allow the bigger world and especially its injustices into their lives. The timeline of this novel shifts back and forth. It begins in the present when husband Ralph Elsted is director of a religious charitable trust and his wife Anna has a weak heart. Quickly we ar......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary on October 02, 2024

A complex and bleak novel, replete with Mantel’s trademark black humour and finely crafted sentences. There’s also a fair amount of character establishment before the reader can fully absorb ‘A Change of Climate’s intricacies, with its concealed entrances and unexpected plot twists, but certainly wo......more

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on September 24, 2022

I read this book partly due my love of Hilary Mantel (based around her simply outstanding Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies/The Mirror and The Light trilogy of novels and equally outstanding plays but also due to its setting in Norfolk. I purchased the book (together with a number of other Norfolk theme......more

Goodreads review by Anastasia on February 02, 2010

This is my new favorite Mantel (every one of her books becomes my favorite right after I read it). One of her non-historical novels, it's set in 1970's Apartheid S. Africa and in England in the 1990's. Almost anything I say of the plot is too much, so I'll say very little: A young missionary couple......more

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