A Change of Climate: A Novel

A CHANGE OF CLIMATE. Copyright © 1994 by Hilary Mantel. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mantel, Hilary.

A change of climate : a novel / by Hilary Mantel

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-42288-1

I. Title

PR6063.A438C44 1997 96-39843

823’.914—dc21 CIP

First published in the United Kingdom by Viking

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company

First Picador Edition: September 2003

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