I sped through this in less than two days, the narrator's voice on audiobook a personal and involving one.

My feelings about Albert steadily changed through Mizta's story and I'm not sure I will ever think of him in quite the same way again, however many liberties have been taken with the truth. I bawled (while listening on the streets!) to some very upsetting scenes of Mitza's first child and her fate. I loved the scenes with Marie Curie, with two female scientists talking about men. Mitza shows us just how hard any woman back then would have had to work to show herself even the equal of a man, and how the natural trials of females (pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, domestic drudgery) severely limited and curtailed their potential. Mitza speaks to us directly, and though the author has had to take liberties, surmise, take educated guesses, it feels as though it all COULD be true, things fit the known facts. This story charts the rise of Einstein through the eyes of the woman who loved him, and exactly what life there would be for someone in his shadow. Treated with disdain by almost everybody, one other student at first shows kindness and later respect for her mind, her ambition and her great talent for mathematics and physics. A Serbian woman, with a limp, fighting to show she deserves her hard-won place at a Polytechnic in Zurich. With International Women's Day just past, I decided it was a good time to read about the wife and colleague of Einstein, but whose name I didn't even know. The exact facts may, most likely, never be known, but this really gets you thinking: 'who WAS the instigator? Who was the brains? Was it all really who history has led us to believe? I saw the TV programme with Geoffrey Rush a short while ago and had this book in mind since then. Speculative biographical narrative of the woman behind one of modern history's most influential scientists. Weeping buckets in the streets, never a good look. without giving too much away it concerned the fate of the protagonist's child. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? It's her story and her voice that shines. Which character – as performed by Mozhan Marno – was your favourite? The meeting and wooing of the two, their meeting of minds at first, but there were many moments that showed me the disadvantage throughout history of being born a woman. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Other Einstein? What did you like most about The Other Einstein?

Speculative but powerful look at a woman pioneer

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