{"product_id":"warlow-experiment","title":"Warlow Experiment","description":"A Sunday Times fiction book of the year\nA Times Book of the Year\nA Daily Mail Historical Book of the Year\n\n'An extraordinary, quite brilliant book' - C. J. Sansom\n'Original and gripping' - The Times\n'Powerful and unsettling' - Andrew Taylor\n'Engrossing ... compelling' - The Sunday Times\n'Powerful, imaginative' - Literary Review\n\nWhat kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years?\nAnd who would agree to be part of such an experiment?\n\nHerbert 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 - something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London.\n\nHe 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. The pay? Fifty pounds per annum, for life.\n\nOnly 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. In this seductive tale of self-delusion and obsession, Alix Nathan has created an utterly transporting historical novel which is both elegant and unforgettably sinister.\n\nBBC History Magazine Best Historical Fiction of 2019","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":39297269661781,"sku":"9781788161695N","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781788161695.jpg?v=1616633505","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/warlow-experiment","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}