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A Change of Climate

By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
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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...

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I adore a number of Hilary Mantel's books - Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, A Place of Greater Safety and her enchanting memoir Giving Up the Ghost - but some are like sucking lemons. A Change of Climate is one. The brisk remote tone and the story itself I found alienating and tiresome. There was nothing that persuaded me to keep with it: no fascinating, well developed characters, no intimacy. Brittle and dull.

Brittle, charmless story

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