An Experiment in Love: A Novel

AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE. Copyright © 1995 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.

An experiment in love / Hilary Mantel.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42687-3

ISBN-10: 0-312-42687-9

I. Title.

PR6063.A438E97 1996

823'.914—dc20

95-33666

CIP

Originally published in Great Britain by Viking

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company

First Picador Edition: July 2007

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