Being love-struck also releases high levels of dopamine, a chemical that “gets the reward system going,” said Olds. Mantel expanded on these views in an essay, "Royal Bodies", for the London Review of Books (LRB): "It may be that the whole phenomenon of monarchy is irrational, but that doesn't mean that when we look at it we should behave like spectators at Bedlam. Speaking to the Times in 2012 she said, “They say, ‘Never apologise, never explain,’ and I think if you’re a really strong person, that’s the philosophy that could guide your life. The long novel Wolf Hall, about HenryVIII's minister Thomas Cromwell, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim.

Comparing her and Princess Diana to royal women of history, Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette, she was talking about how a woman is made into a “jointed doll” by the media and the royal PR industry. Kate Middleton, as was, has become a prisoner of a culture’s wishes, Mantel’s metaphor the continuing reduction of women to a few functions: humiliation via idealisation. The panel of judges, led by the broadcaster James Naughtie, described Wolf Hall as an "extraordinary piece of storytelling".In a very black comedy of elaborately choreographed coincidences, weakness and self-indulgence are duly punished. Into this benighted world comes the curate Fludd, a spiritual alchemist who can free anyone who will listen – but particularly the rebellious Sister Philomena – with the influence of his beneficent magic. But health issues got in the way – she suffered from a severe form of endometriosis which continued to have repercussions throughout her life.

An Experiment in Love also displays that gift for grotesquerie that was amply advertised in Mantel’s debut novel. So, when I put Jane Eyre together with Kidnapped, which is structurally perfect, they gave me a knowledge, say by the age of 10, of what I was looking for in a story. Based on your cognitive assessment of the event, you label your feelings (anxious, excited, nervous, or fearful). Whenever I feel like I am reading too many newly published books, I seek out something that has been languishing on my shelves for more than a year or two. That alone, she said, may be enough to bring some couples back to those earlier, exhilarating days, when all they could think about was their newfound love.

Rather than feeling fear, you might interpret your physical response as something like curiosity or concern if the woman seemed to be in need of assistance. The James-Lange theory of emotion, developed by William James and Carl Lange in the 1880s, takes a different approach.