A Mind of Her Own by Paula McLain
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Many thanks to Audible Originals for this free March short selection. This is a 1.5 hour story about Marie Sklodowska, a 25-year-old from Poland, before she married Pierre Curie and became world-renowned for her pioneering research on radioactivity. It's a believable story of what it was like to be a woman in the male-dominated world at the Sorbonne University, Paris, 1893. This is not a comprehensive story, but a microscopic view of a very small period of time in Madame Curie's life, with an endless scope of the future ahead of her. It is ta short story of a student, a scientist, a woman, forging her way against all odds, and how she came to partner with her husband. This definitely made me want to seek out a more detailed history of her life.
The narrator, Hillary Huber, was excellent.

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