They are Marie Curie and Mileva Maric, a Serbian, who was Einstein's first wife and is now teaching in Zurich. He takes the notebook to Nobel Prize winner Professor Max Von Laue and from him learns that only two women could absorb Albert Einstein's work as readily as in his patient's notebook. He finds the room where she was living as Mariya Dragonovic, and a notebook with complex mathematical calculations.

We learn about his disagreements with his superior Dr Heinrich Mehring over the treatment of patients, his meeting with the Einstein Girl before she is found in the woodlands, the loss of his brother Max in the Great War and the wealth and influence of Alma's family.Īs Martin treats the beautiful Einstein Girl she remembers her name - Mariya, although when they had met briefly before the incident she had told him her name was Elisabeth - and he begins to fall in love with her. In a further flashback to October 1932 (the main part of the book) we follow Martin Kirsch in his work at the Charite Psychiatric Clinic in the months leading up to his disappearance. The young woman who was suffering from amnesia was naturally dubbed the 'Einstein Girl' by the popular press. Near her body there had been found handbill advertising a lecture entitled 'The Present State of Quantum Theory' and the principal speaker was Professor Albert Einstein. Martin had been treating a young woman found half-naked in the woodlands near Potsdam. In the complex start of THE EINSTEIN GIRL we first read a letter to Elisabeth about a novel that the writer wants published after his death, then we are taken to Berlin in May 1933 as Alma Siegel searches for her missing fiance, psychiatrist Martin Kirsch. Review - The Einstein Girl by Philip Sington