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    Apr 21, 2021 5 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    SLIDING DOORS

    Half Life by Jillian Cantor, Simon & Schuster

    Author Jillian Cantor says that Sliding Doors has long been one of her favourite movies, and her idea of applying the concept of ‘what if’ and exploring the outcome of ‘the road not taken ’ to the life of Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice, is enthralling.

    Clearly Marie Curie did pretty well for herself. As a woman in the rigid patriarchal world of science she not only ignored the boundaries of her gender but made history with her groundbreaking discoveries, despite also being born in a country where women were denied a university education. It is the sacrifices that Curie made to reach those heights that are explored here as Jillian Cantor weaves two page-turning stories

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