★Rights sold to USA!
★Longlisted for the 2020 Exeter Novel Prize!
★The new work by British journalist and author Jessica Mills, who has written for publications such as The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider!
★Inspired by the true story of the great female scientist Rosalind Franklin, this book tells a story of hope and persistence, love and betrayal, celebrating the power of women.
★Rosalind Franklin is considered to be the queen of DNA hidden behind the scenes. Her work proved the two-chain helical structure of DNA in 1952 but was cheated out of a Nobel prize, which instead went to three male scientists – James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. A trove of letters between the men found in 2010 showed the extent of their efforts to take the credit for Franklin’s work.

‘Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman’s work remains invisible.’ Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man’s world is to be invisible. In the 1940s science is a gentleman’s profession, and it appears there are plenty of colleagues who want to keep it that way.
After being segregated at Cambridge, then ignored and put down in the workplace, she has no intention of being seen as a second-class citizen and throws everything into proving her worth. But despite her success in unlocking the very secret of life, the ultimate glory is claimed by the men she left in her wake.

Jessica Mills is a journalist (Jessica Davies) and author. She has written for publications such as The Independent, The Wall Street Journal and Business Insider, where she investigated the use of flammable cladding in hospital intensive care units in 2020. Jessica was an editor at Dow Jones, leading the team that uncovered the misuse of funds at Abraaj and a member of the Women at Dow Jones steering committee. Rosalind was longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize in 2020.