A Change of Climate, (Paperback)

from kakberg

About the Bantu Education Act, a prophecy of the present: " In twenty years' time, or in forty years' time, when this idiocy is over, how will you put wisdom into heads that have been deprived of it?" " He made a discovery, common to those who expatriate themselves and then return that when he an...

from lindaspangler

last part about africa and return interesting whole first half of book in present, do not know what happened in past, boring

from AlisonY

This is my fifth Mantel read after being a late starter. I'm starting to think of her books as Cromwell Mantel and Other Mantel, as her writing style seems really quite different between the two. A Change of Climate is the tale of a previously very settled marriage in crisis interspersed with th...

from JulieStielstra

Just brilliant. Family complexity, ethics, infidelity, parenting, unbearable grief, the brutality of people and nations, and the things we all hide from each other and - mostly - from ourselves. The exploration of how the best intentions, the most earnest choices to do good, can not only fail but...

from JulieStielstra

Just brilliant. Family complexity, ethics, infidelity, parenting, unbearable grief, the brutality of people and nations, and the things we all hide from each other and - mostly - from ourselves. The exploration of how the best intentions, the most earnest choices to do good, can not only fail but...