This is a compelling story that won't leave you alone even after you've turned the last page. In LITTLE GIRL GONE you are immersed in the lives of people you think you'll never meet and come to care deeply about what happens to each of them. Nobody gets to the marrow of human flaws and frailties better than Drusilla Campbell.

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This story of tension and triumph is a perfect bookclub selection. The complex relationships between Campbell's richly drawn characters took me on a psychological roller coaster that tested my expectations, my values, and my heart. When is the last time you cheered out loud for a character in a novel? That's what I did as I read Drusilla Campbell's Little Girl Gone. Laurel Corona, author of Penelope's Daughter and Finding Emilie With an economy of style, vivid details, and grace of expression, Drusilla Campbell has written a novel well worth staying up late to keep reading. Would you like an email notification of other drawings? Sign up for our weekly digest in the sidebar –>.Little Girl Gone peers insightfully into the lives of people easily written off as monsters. About the author: Laurel Corona is also the author of Penelope’s Daughter, The Four Seasons, and Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance. Voltaire himself admitted that a work on Newton published in his own name had been practically dictated by his brilliant lover. Would she have received the recognition she deserved? It’s doubtful. If she had, it’s likely Herschel’s discovery would have been made right then. Still thinking of herself more as his assistant than a scientist in her own right, Emilie did not insist. Her lover, the writer and philosopher Voltaire, was using all of their lab equipment trying to prove that fire was matter. She was unable to carry out the experiment herself for lack of thermometers. She wrote that the way to prove this was to refract light onto a row of thermometers corresponding to the various colors in the spectrum – exactly the experiment Herschel performed. Sixty-three years earlier, Emilie du Châtelet, anonymously mailed to the French Academy of Science an essay, “Dissertation on the Nature and Propagation of Fire,” which included the idea that different colors of light carried different amounts of heat. The “calorific” rays, as he named them, behaved just like visible light without being detectable to the human eye. Going further, he measured the temperature just beyond the edge of the visible red and discovered it was the hottest of all. In 1800, when William Herschel shot a beam of sunlight through a glass prism and measured the temperature of each color of light, he noticed that the temperature increased from the violet to the red ends of the spectrum. Emilie du Chatelet and Voltaire set up a physics lab on the ground floor.

Penelope's Daughter by Laurel Corona