Variable Stars (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780956521446)

This is a story of love and astronomy; music and silence; secrets and truth-telling; of world-changing discoveries, and unrequited desire. Moving from York in the 1780s to Regency Bath, and then to Hanover in the 1840s, it concerns the lives of three people-all astronomers. There is Caroline, torn between her passion for music and her passion for the stars; John, deaf from childhood, whose extraordinary mathematical gifts afford him perspectives not available to others; and Edward, friend and mentor to Caroline and to John, who must conceal his innermost feelings from them both. All three find fulfilment in the heavens for the set- backs and disappointments they encounter on earth. All three, in time, come to know the truth about variable stars.

Author: Christina Koning
ISBN-10: 0956521444
ISBN-13: 9780956521446
Publisher: Arbuthnot Books
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2011
Pages: 402
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.89d