MARIE CURIE AND HER DAUGHTERS : THE PRIVATE LIVES OF SCIENCE'S FIRST FAMILY
by Shelley Emling

Marie Curie is probably the most famous female scientist that ever lived. She received two Nobel Prizes: one for physics and the other for chemistry. Her discovery of radium and how it could be used was an enormous breakthrough. Ironically, it started out curing people of cancer and in ten years, it was making people sick. Radium eventually killed Marie along with many others.
She had two daughters: Irene and Eve. Irene would follow in her parents' footsteps and become a physicist herself. Not so with Eve. She loved the arts and was an accomplished pianist and then became a writer.
Unfortunately, I didn't finish the book because I struggled with the prose. It's very dry and plodding. Don't believe any of the reviews. It's certainly not page-turning, exhilarating, nor riveting. 
Not recommended.