Synopsis:
"From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange, fossilized creatures in the cliffs of Lime Regis sets the world alight. But Mary must face powerful prejudice from a male scientific establishment, not to mention vicious gossip and the heartbreak of forbidden love. Then - in prickly, clever Elizabeth Philpot, a fossil-obsessed middle-class spinster - she finds achampion and a rival. Despite their differences in class and age, Mary and Elizabeth's loyalty and passion for the thruth must win out..."

Reserved for doodleali in the wishlist tag game.

I liked this book a lot. The story about the two women, very different in background and age, sharing the interest in fossiles (curies) and finding many of them, even several large specimens that create a lot of roar.

I think it is the combination of historical background (information about how the people lived in these days, early 19th century), the story of the two strong female characters and their families, the fight they have with the rules of a mainly male society, the information about the fossiles that made his book so very interesting for me.
I liked it, though, because of the way Mary and Elizabeth came to live. It was like I walked next to them, sharing their lives and ecperiencing what was going on in their lives. That's what I like about books, when they let me go across borders in time and space and make me feel like I am there where the book's characters are.

I would never have given it a second thought, had I not read another book by this writer that I also liked a lot. This one did not disappoint me either.
I think there's another one on my TBR-shelf and I doubt it'll be unread by the end of the year

doodleali, you've been tagged with this book.
Enjoy the read, I hope you like it as much as I did!

Thank you to Boekentrol for tagging me with this book in the wish list tag game. I look forward to reading it.

I enjoyed the historical setting, the location of Lyme where I have never been and the details about the fossils.

To be left on the bookshelves in reception.