{"product_id":"book-d1ov","title":"The Warlow Experiment","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2019 by the\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London), and the BBC  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    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. \u003cbr\u003e    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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328189178160,"sku":"BDd1ov","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411382-d1ov-Square.jpg?v=1733709073","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-d1ov","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}