True story set in the world of DNA

Submitted: 5th March 2024

Rosalind – Jessica Mills

True story set in the world of DNA – This book will make you angry. The warning I have to give before you read it. And you definitely should read it as it’s the most moving and fascinating story you will read. What made me angry is that there’s one woman at the heart of it, and three men walk all over her, ignore and cast her aside to bring glory to themselves for what she did…

Read on (with stress ball in hand as honestly…. you just wait….)

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BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : Cambridge

Author guide: Jessica Mills

Genre: Inspired by true story

Food and drink to accompany: nothing, you spend lots of time in a lab

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A novel to transport you to the world of science

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Rosalind – what a woman and what a story!

Here’s a woman who history, who men have tried to erase but one who kept fighting and fighting. She was on the path of a great discovery in DNA and she kept on it.

Jessica Mills has done a wonderful job bringing Rosalind to life – she gives her a voice and emotions and I was there right beside her. I do feel the book should come with a stress ball however – by a few chapters in I am fuming at what these scientific men were putting our Rosalind through.

I had heard of Rosalind Franklin but didn’t know that much about her role in DNA to be honest. I immediately rectified that. She was instrumental to discovering that DNA was a helix structure in 1953 and her work led to so many other discoveries and studies. She paved the way for so much that followed, yet she is hidden in history’s pages. Well, not any more!

The tag line for this book is One Woman did the work and three men took the glory. I was angry before I opened the book! When you read how and what they did, my blood was boiling. It’s Rosalind’s reactions that are the the most telling however, as you just know she is going to get her ‘ revenge’. Oh her male colleagues might put her down, block her path and take her work but she is not having it! She knew her work was crucial and that she could be on the cusp of a major breakthrough so she carried on. I admire her so much and oh, this story needs to be told.

Jessica Mills thank you for bringing Rosalind to so many readers – for showing us what she did and how she did it. The writing is scientific enough to learn but easy enough to read if, like me, you barely scrapped through GCSE. That is quite a feat in itself Jessica Mills should get an award for that!

Rosalind – died far too early – ( I cried at that bit) – but what a life. Now we can share it and live it again for her. Wow.