The Stargazer's Sister

by Carrie Brown

Book Overview

From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right. This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804197938
• ISBN13: 9780804197939
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.4"