The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan – February Lunchtime Bookclub

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The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan

Wednesday 17 February at 12 noon

Join us on Zoom to discuss this fascinating historical novel. The Zoom link will be emailed out to attendees the day before.

Herbert Powyss lives on a small estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman’s fashionable cultivation of exotic plants and trees. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: for seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the cellar of the manor house, fitted out with 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; the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. Only one man is desperate enough to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate labourer 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.

“An extraordinary, quite brilliant book” C J Sansom

“She is an original, with a virtuoso touch” Hilary Mantel