338 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Crown Publishers.
3 stars
(1 review)
The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
Subjects
- Scientists -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
- Social isolation -- Fiction.
- Country homes -- Fiction.
- Young women -- Fiction.
- Alchemists -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.