num_pages: 250
description: An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.Following A Change in Climate, An Experiment in Love is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel's world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
language: English
title: An Experiment in Love
titlecomplete: An Experiment in Love
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Historical, Womens, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 2650
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Hawthornden Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial