It is an extraordinary biography written three years after Maria Curie's death that became a worldwide bestseller. Eva, her youngest daughter, wrote the book with a double objective: to honor her mother's memory and to faithfully transmit her life and personality thanks to direct access to documents, anecdotes and stories of her family.
The style is entertaining and interesting: it describes the fascinating life of the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes and the first woman to hold the position of professor at the University of Paris. It also gathers details that bring closer the figure of this great scientist, daughter, sister, wife and mother. It conveys the lights and shadows of her story in which the shining aspects predominate.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934), born in Warsaw, physicist and chemist, naturalized French, in addition to an extraordinary talent, was a tireless worker, generous, separated from fame and fortune, austere and with an unconditional love for her husband and daughters. I highly recommend this book.