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Title: The Warlow Experiment: A Novel
Author: Alix Nathan
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (London), and the BBC An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. 'The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.' --Hilary Mantel 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. 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.
