{"product_id":"the-warlow-experiment-alix-nathan","title":"The Warlow Experiment - Alix Nathan","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHerbert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pay: fifty pounds per annum, for life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback - New \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foster's Little Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57384353202556,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/9426\/6296\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_02f314b3-89ef-4fbf-9576-6b8f08b0559b.jpg?v=1788011653","url":"https:\/\/fosterslittlebookshop.com\/products\/the-warlow-experiment-alix-nathan","provider":"Foster's Little Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}