Success by Una L. Silberrad

Description

In Una L. Silberrad’s Success we meet Michael Annarly just as his most promising scientific work may be about to change everything for him. He is a rising young chemist, a man of gifts far beyond his fortune, dining late with Lady Sibyl Carson and her circle of influential men — and the ambitions his hosts take for granted are not the ones that drive him. Silberrad surrounds him with a whole set of people for whom success is the only conceivable end of life, and lets them collide with what that success would cost.

Silberrad, one of the few Edwardian women novelists to write seriously about the world of science and business, built a career of novels about clever people in exacting professions, and this is one of her best. It is a romance, but an unfashionably clear-eyed one — about the chemistry of the laboratory and, more searchingly, the chemistry of two people finding out what they are willing to pay for their ambitions.

Why readers still come back to it

• An Edwardian novel that takes science seriously and romance personally
• A rare heroine-and-chemist romance with real intellectual content
• Sharp, unsentimental about the actual costs of success

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