Rating: 5 out of 5

Really enjoyable tale featuring a slightly historically-time-altered and invented friendship between Ada Byron and Mary Goodwin (Shelley). Featuring Charles Babbage and Charles Dickens as well. Fun.

Disclaimer: I was one of the funders on Kickstarter so was probably already quite engaged with the concept.

Highlighted passages:

Books for learning, books for distraction, books for company, books for making sense of things.

Romantic, even, though not in a smoochy way.

There was something magical about the smell of new, oiled leather, and binding glue, and fresh paper.

this book was new, perfect, like an undiscovered country.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account