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A Novel of Marie Curie
Paul Dry Books
February 2026
On Sale: February 17, 2026
364 pages
ISBN: 1589882105
EAN: 9781589882102
Kindle: B0G633S9ZJ
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In the popular imagination, Marie Curie was all brilliance and unshakeable drive. Luminous Bodies is a tender exploration of the vulnerable woman behind the legend. In the vein of Georgia (Dawn Tripp) and Matrix (Lauren Groff), the narrative follows Marie from girlhood in Poland to the battlefields of World War I, focusing on her marriage, widowhood, and love affair with physicist Paul Langevin—after which she was ostracized from society and the scientific community. Haunted by self—doubt, she turned to Hertha Ayrton, the scientist and suffragist who drew her back from the brink of suicide. How did Curie endure all this, and still achieve so much? What sustained her rich emotional, sexual, and intellectual life—and what were the costs? Jersild explores these questions in this radiant novel.
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