The Stargazer’s Sister: A Novel by Carrie Brown (Epub)

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From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right.

This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William’s assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse. With her characteristically elegant prose, Carrie Brown creates from history a compelling story that interweaves familial collaboration and conflict with a haunting exploration of the sublime beauty of astronomy and our small but essential place within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through Lina’s trials and successes we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness—a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.

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⭐ Classic Carrie Brown beautiful prose. She can make anything magical which is why I love her. Not my favorite because it gets slow in the middle. Might be deliberate to let the reader know that is the most memorable part of her life and was mostly full of drudgery and service but the beginning and the end, where things happen to her, the protagonist, are where the magic happens and the beauty and grace of Brown’s writing are revealed.

⭐ A beautifully realized novel by an author at the top of her craft. A story as much for our time as in the 18th century because it’s about breaking the boundaries of science, of spirituality, of art, and most importantly, gender roles. The novel asks us to examine life as a whole, to delve into the depth and breadth of how things interrelate: “To consider creation in all its departments as extending throughout space and filled with intelligent existence….” What would two siblings William and Lina have done, who would they have been, without the other? This novel should be an empowering one to many a young woman beginning her career today, and the story wraps you up and won’t let you go. Full of intriguing historical detail and compelling characters, The Stargazer’s Sister will have you questioning your assumptions about the Universe and the perspective of the beings that inhabit our world.

⭐ The beauty of the language kept me going long enough to come to appreciate the unhurried pace of this portrait of a remarkable woman, whose extraordinary dedication made her pioneering brother’s lasting contributions to science possible. Her related discoveries were not unsung, but her spiritual epiphanies are at the heart of her story . Ultimately, this book illustrates the crucible of an extraordinary love and its labors. I have rarely been so moved.

⭐ Well written and gripping in its details, both of their lives and their discoveries. It also depicts an era and the kind of life people led in the 18th century. Unforgettable.

⭐ This is an exquisite, radiant novel. It is beautifully written, tender and thought provoking. I have read almost all of Carrie Brown’s novels and have enjoyed them all but this, for me, is her best. I will keep it in my “reread” pile and look forward to going on this light filled journey again.

⭐ Good book but not quite accurate, and missing large parts of William’s discoveries. There is a whole bunch of novel here – not close to a biography.

⭐ The characters felt very real, the combination of day to day struggles with scientific discovery felt exciting as well as realistic.

⭐ This book was wonderful to read. I made notes of some phrases that were so beautiful I wished I’d written them. It’s almost poetry. Oh yeah, and the story is intriguing too!

⭐ Painfully detailed but highly interesting, the Stargazer’s Sister allows insight into the lives of two scientists who are little known by most of the world but made some of the largest contributions in the history of space discovery.

⭐ The story was not exactly compelling, though I cared about the characters, and kept reading. A biography of Herschel would have been time better spent, especially when further study revealed so much that varied from the novel. (Yes, yes, I know, novelist’s prerogative.) It could be said that the novel causes the reader to want to learn about the man and his sister–and there is much value in that.

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