Half Life

This is a book about the choices we make in life and what if we made another choice.

The author gives choices to Marie Curie (nee Marya Sklodowska) as her given name in Poland in the first chapter in 1934 and alternates to her younger self Marya whilst growing up in Poland in 1891 and how each choice she took could change her from an ordinary individual to the [most] famous female scientist of her time.

I struggled reading this book and often reread the book synopsis as I found it a bit confusing. When I got comfortable with this style of reading and the alternate world she created for Marie Curie and perhaps how history could have changed if only Marie had done this or that.

Although everyone knows of Marie Curie, it was interesting to see her go from ordinary to become an extraordinary figure in history.

The book did make me do a google search for more information.