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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year It was the year afterChappaquiddick and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about thedisaster. Now she Karina and Julianne were escaping the dreary Englishcountryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing accountsof her current position as a university student with recollections of herchildhood and an ever difficult relationship with her longtime schoolmateKarina Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring the power of men butfearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. When these bright butconfused young women land in late 1960s London they are confronted with a slewof new preoccupationssex politics food and fertilityand a pointlessgrotesque tragedy of their own. Hilary Mantels magnificent novel examines thepressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excelbutnot be too successfulin Englands complex hierarchy of class and status. «
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