{"product_id":"9780062969873","title":"Half Life : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eIn Another Time \u003c\/em\u003ereimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if shed made a different choice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a different choice?\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cp\u003eWhat if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie?\u003c\/p\u003eEntwining Marie Curies real story with Marya Zorawskas fictional one, \u003cem\u003eHalf Life \u003c\/em\u003eexplores loves lost and destinies unfulfilledand probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Maryas life, Jillian Cantors unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved  as well as the world at large and course of science and historymight have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41185667154072,"sku":"9780062969873","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/products\/9780062969873.jpg?v=1635018581","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780062969873","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}