Audiobook Review: A Mind of Her Own by Paula Mclain

A Mind of Her Own
by Paula McLain
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Pages: 2
Published by Audible Studios
Publication Date February 28th 2019
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Listening time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
From Paula McLain, the best-selling author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin, comes a breathtakingly intimate story of the brilliant, willful Marie Curie - a young woman in Paris on the verge of her greatest discovery yet: herself.
Paris, 1893. Twenty-five-year-old Marie Sklodowska is studying science at the Sorbonne - one of the only universities in the world that has begun to admit women. A thousand miles from her native Poland, with no money and the odds stacked against any woman daring to pursue a career in such a rigorous field, Marie throws herself into her studies. She's certain that to succeed in a man's world, she will have to go it alone.
Her meticulous plans get thrown slightly off-course when Marie attracts the attention of an accomplished young physicist, himself on the precipice of greatness. Thirty-five-year-old Pierre Curie, famous for his work on symmetry, believes he has found in Marie an equal who shares his devotion to scientific discovery. He offers to help with her work, and soon begins to court her. But to Marie, men have always been an obstacle, love a distraction from her goals. She hasn't come this far to let either stand in the way of her dreams - dreams Pierre insists they can share.
In A Mind of Her Own, McLain taps into the luminous mind and complex heart of a singular woman caught between order and chaos, science and love in the period just before the world would learn her name.

Review in Bulletpoints:

• For such a short audiobook Paula Mclain has written a novel packed full of punch
• The subject matter of a female scientist is always interesting to me. However, I appreciated that the language was written in a way that anyone could decifer the sciencey lingo.
• Hillary Huber was a new narrator to me and I really enjoyed her performance. She has wonderful inflection that added so much to this short story.