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A review by laplatts
Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking
3.0
Jane Hawking knew that her married life would not be an easy one from the outset, but the challenges that she and her husband faced only kept coming and kept getting bigger.
Travelling to Infinity is Jane's account of marriage to celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking. It is heartbreaking to read her account of constant struggles to come to terms with the diagnosis, a battle to find and retain help, but more poignantly her struggle with the loss of herself. She highlights the problems that caregivers face, problems compounded by the fact that her husband was a genius.
I enjoyed the book, feeling it was a truthful, brutally truthful, account of the impacts of motor neuron disease on a family. However, I do find the prose too long winded and this makes the text a daunting one.
Travelling to Infinity is Jane's account of marriage to celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking. It is heartbreaking to read her account of constant struggles to come to terms with the diagnosis, a battle to find and retain help, but more poignantly her struggle with the loss of herself. She highlights the problems that caregivers face, problems compounded by the fact that her husband was a genius.
I enjoyed the book, feeling it was a truthful, brutally truthful, account of the impacts of motor neuron disease on a family. However, I do find the prose too long winded and this makes the text a daunting one.