Children of Radium

Joe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis. The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life - an unpublished, two-thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew...