Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. "Tracy is a local author who grew up in Bethesda and went to BCC. She became famous for Girl with A Pearl Earring. I enjoyed her latest historic novel based on a female paleontologist and a female fossil collector in 18th century England- a time when women weren’t even allowed to study science at college. It takes place in Lyme Regis on the coast and is based on the true story of a working class girl who makes some of the most important discoveries of dinosaurs ever but is used and dismissed by the male scientists. The fossil collector explores the tension of science versus religion – how can dinosaurs exist if they pre-date the creation of the world as described in the bible."
