{"product_id":"warlow-experiment-book-alix-nathan-9780385545334","title":"The Warlow Experiment","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2019 by the\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London), and the BC \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the basement of the manor house, fitted out with rugs, books, paintings, and even a chamber organ. Meals will arrive thrice daily via a dumbwaiter. The solitude will be totally unrelieved by any social contact whatsoever; the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. The pay: fifty pounds per annum, for life. \u003cbr\u003e Only one man is desperate to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate laborer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50135015981329,"sku":"CIN0385545339G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52094062330129,"sku":"CIN0385545339VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53456565174545,"sku":"GOR014929887","price":22.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385545339.jpg?v=1750941862","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/warlow-experiment-book-alix-nathan-9780385545334","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}