Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Caroline, known as Lina to her family, has always lived in the shadow of her older brother William Herschel s accomplishments. And yet when William invites Lina to join him in England to assist in his musical and astronomical pursuits not to mention to run his bachelor household she accepts, finding a new sense of purpose. William may be an obsessive genius, but Lina adores him, and aids him with the same fervency as a beloved wife.
When William decides to marry, however, Lina s world collapses. As she attempts to rebuild a future, we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.
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