AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE

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Selwyn, Matthew (20 March 2014). "Review: An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel". bibliofreak.net.

A 2011 study conducted at Stony Brook University in New York state found that it is possible to be madly in love with someone after decades of marriage. The research team, which included Fisher, performed MRI scans on couples who had been married an average of 21 years. They found the same intensity of activity in dopamine-rich areas of the brains as found in the brains of couples who were newly in love. The study suggested that the excitement of romance can remain while the apprehension is lost. Inspirational Honorary Graduates announced". Oxford Brookes University. 3 June 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2016. The 2020 Booker Prize longlist announced". The Booker Prizes. 27 July 2020 . Retrieved 16 August 2020. In her 20s, her health was damaged in a sequence of medical bungles, as doctors tried without success to pinpoint the source of her ever-widening pain. Eventually, she herself diagnosed the gynaecological condition endometriosis. After treatment, "I was missing a few bits" - including womb, ovaries and "a few lengths of bowel". Giving Up the Ghost contains many moving passages about the phantom daughter whom she and her husband, a retired geologist, planned to name Catriona, after Catriona Drummond, the girl Davie falls in love with in Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped. At one point it dawned on her that, with two homes, comprising seven bedrooms and cupboards replete with freshly laundered linen, she was keeping house for "the unborn".

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)

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They also took up a total of four paragraphs in a 30-paragraph speech – less than one-seventh, in other words" according to Hadley Freeman "Hilary Mantel v the Duchess of Cambridge: a story of lazy journalism and raging hypocrisy", The Guardian, 19 February 2013.Obituary: Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winner celebrated for the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy". Irish Independent. 25 September 2022 . Retrieved 29 September 2022. Blair, Elizabeth (16 October 2012). "Hilary Mantel First Woman To Win Booker Prize Twice". NPR.org. She delivered five 2017 Reith Lectures on BBC Radio Four, talking about the theme of historical fiction. [57] Her final one of these lectures was on the theme of adaptation of historical novels for stage or screen. Mantel's lectures were selected by its producer, Jim Frank, as amongst the best of the long-running series. [58] Personal life and death [ edit ] Mantel, Hilary (17 April 2010). "Hilary Mantel remembers her stepfather's books". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 17 October 2012. Sangster, Catherine (14 September 2009). "How to Say: JM Coetzee and other Booker authors". BBC News . Retrieved 1 October 2009.

The contours of Mantel's experience may be discerned in certain of her novels, such as Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), which maps the story of Frances Shore, a wife marooned in the fundamentalist, misogynistic deserts of Saudi Arabia where, again, the rules don't apply. She herself endured four years there in the 1980s when her husband took a job there. In response to the question, "What has been your happiest moment?", she once replied, "Leaving Jeddah."

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What Books do Writers Teach?: Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart's Syllabi from Columbia University | Open Culture". Archived from the original on 15 December 2013 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Hilary Mantel". The Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014 . Retrieved 14 November 2014.The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute hosts a public lecture series to continue its efforts to educate the public on the latest scientific discoveries in neuroscience and translate how these discoveries are relevant in our daily lives. Leading figures from UK arts and education awarded honorary degrees by Bath Spa University". Bath Spa University. 12 July 2013. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2016. If love lasts, this rollercoaster of emotions, and, sometimes, angst, calms within one or two years, said Schwartz. “The passion is still there, but the stress of it is gone,” he added. Cortisol and serotonin levels return to normal. Love, which began as a stressor (to our brains and bodies, at least), becomes a buffer against stress. Brain areas associated with reward and pleasure are still activated as loving relationships proceed, but the constant craving and desire that are inherent in romantic love often lessen.