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“Look!” Charlotte’s father commanded her, gesturing up at the sky with a sweep of his hand that encompassed every speck of light above them. He’d dragged her out of bed and driven for more than an hour, finally stopping beside an empty plot of land far from the centre of the city. She could see the Milky Way stretching from horizon to horizon, and at any other time she might have marvelled at the sight. But she still didn’t understand why they’d come here. Her mother was sick; they should not have left her alone.
A tragedy that shatters her childhood drives Charlotte to become an astronomer, in the hope of finally determining the shape of the universe.
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