A Change of Climate. Hilary Mantel

      

       Copyright

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      First published by Viking 1994

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      The lines from W.H. Auden’s As I Walked Out One Evening’ are reprinted from Collected Poems by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson, by kind permission of Faber & Faber.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      To Jenny Naipaul

       Note

      All the characters in this book are fictitious, except that of the Archbishop of Cape Town, which is based on his real-life counterpart, Geoffrey Clayton. I have used some of his words, taken from writings and sermons.

      The settlement of Mosadinyana is fictional. The township of Elim is invented too, but I am indebted to the memoirs of Hannah Stanton, who served in the township of Lady Selborne.

      Cases similar to that of the Eldreds may be found in the Law Reports of Botswana.

      Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871:

      ‘We are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability…’

      Job 4:7:

      ‘Consider, what innocent ever perished, or where have the righteous been destroyed?’

      Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

Note

       Epigraph

1970 SAD CASES, GOOD SOULS

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THREE

FOUR

       FIVE

       SIX

       SEVEN

       EIGHT

       NINE

       TEN

       Keep Reading

       P.S.

       About the Author

       A Kind of Alchemy

       LIFE at a Glance

       A Writing Life

       Read on

       Have You Read?

       About the Author

       Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

       Praise

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       1970 SAD CASES, GOOD SOULS

      One day when Kit was ten years old, a visitor cut her wrists in the kitchen. She was just beginning on this cold, difficult form of death when Kit came in to get a glass