Louisa Hall

Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart. Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life A Frankenstein for the twenty-first century by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Trinity and Speak A woman begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to Montana. As the woman writes,...

Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . . The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar. New York Times J. Robert Oppenheimer—the father of the atomic bomb—was a brilliant scientist, a champion...