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Albert Einstein Speaking
Albert Einstein Speaking | R.J. Gadney
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Princeton. New Jersey. 14th March 1954 'Albert Einstein speaking.' 'Who?' asks the girl on the telephone. 'I'm sorry,' she says. 'I have the wrong number.' 'You have the right number,' Albert says. From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speaking begins with two unlikely friends - the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. From their first conversation Mimi Beaufort had a profound effect on Einstein and brought him, in his final years, back to life. In turn he let her into his world. Albert Einstein Speaking is the story of an incredible friendship, and of a remarkable life. The son of an electrician in nineteenth-century Germany, Albert Einstein went on to become one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and the most famous face in the world. This riotous, charming and moving novel spans almost a century of European history and shines a light on the real man behind the myth.
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RamsFan1963
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Eggs That was my choice too 👏🏻 5y
CarolynM 😂 5y
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Gina
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Ooooo I like that...^^^...♡

j.e.s.s Great advice! 6y
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Moray_Reads
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Panpan

A strangely drab and lifeless book. The framing device of a wrong-number phonecall from a young woman is barely used, instead there is a bland recitation of Einstein's biography peppered with brief conversations and excerpts from his diaries and letters, often repeated. Einstein comes across as unpleasant (he's horrible to the women in his life) and Gadney seems unenthused by his subject, providing little insight on his character or theories

tpixie If you‘re ever in Fort Myers‘s, Florida, visit the Winter homes of Edison & Henry Ford. You might enjoy that better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_and_Ford_Winter_Estates (edited) 6y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Mehso-so

I'm not sure on what the purpose of this book/story was? I thought it fiction? But it's a very (very) dry chronological recount of some events in Einstein's life. Left me questioning the point/purpose? Thought it a reimagining fictional story but I think it was non-fiction? 🤷

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