The Einstein Girl
  • Published: 15 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535799
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

The Einstein Girl

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A gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Berlin in 1932, centred around a young woman found in a coma - who is she, and why does everyone want to find out?

At the heart of truth lies madness...

Two months before Hitler's rise to power, a beautiful young woman is found naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. When she finally wakes from her coma, she can remember nothing, not even her name. The only clue to her identity is a handbill found nearby, advertising a public lecture by Albert Einstein: 'On the Present State of Quantum Theory'.

Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch takes the case, little suspecting that this will be his last. As he searches for the truth about 'the Einstien Girl', professional fascination turns to reckless love. His investigations lead him to a remote corner of Siberia via a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. There the inheritor of Einstein's genius - his youngest son, Eduard - is writing a book that will destroy his illustrious father and, in the process, change the world.
  • Published: 15 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099535799
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Philip Sington

Philip Sington was born in Cambridge. His father was an industrial chemist and his mother an officer in British Intelligence. After studying History at Trinity College, Cambridge he worked as a business journalist and magazine editor for nine years. He co-authored six novels under the joint pseudonym Patrick Lynch, selling well over a million copies worldwide. His solo novels include Zoia's Gold and The Einstein Girl. To date his work has been translated into twenty-one foreign languages. He lives in London with his family.

www.philipsington.com

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Praise for The Einstein Girl

A dark and beautiful novel, a fascinating historical thriller, and a tender love story

Rebecca Stott, author of New York Times bestselling Ghostwalk

An intriguing thriller set on the boundaries between madness and genius, that lost domain where few scientists go. A foray into a little known facet of the greatest mind of the 20th century, The Einstein Girl is all the better for not being what you might expect

João Magueijo, Professor in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, and author of Faster than the Speed of Light

Intriguing novel... atmospheric thriller

Irish Independent

A first-rate historical thriller, set in the early 1930s and inspired by correspondence between Einstein and his first wife... Sington's grasp of period detail is awesome...and his writing has a rich, lustrous quality...This is a serious novel with plenty to say about the unhappy affinity between genius and madness

John O'Connell, The Guardian

This complex novel is a brilliant mystery with an intelligent narrative that raises those key questions that keep you turning the pages

eurocrime.co.uk

Sington creates a sense of unease from the first page

Alastair Mabbott, Herald

A serious, well-informed and interesting thriller about the private life and family of an undoubted genius. Excellent period setting in Berlin in 1932 and numerous psychological insights... highly recommended

Jessica Mann, Literary Review

A stylish thriller... Strands of history and imagination are beautifully woven together

The Times
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