A review by elementarymydear
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything by Jane Hawking

Did not finish book.
This is the only one star rating I've ever given on this site. That should tell you a lot.

Going into this book, I expected (and wanted) a moving story about two people falling in love, about the emotional struggle of living with disabilities and then a marriage collapsing. It's the kind of real life story that should fill me with empathy all the way through, and should actually make me feel something, but it was like reading someone's shopping list. In fact, a shopping list would have perhaps been more entertaining. I stuck with it for a bit, hoping that, maybe, she might actually talk about her feelings (writing about your feelings? In your autobiography? Even the notion!) but when she started talking on about page 100 about how they decided to buy a dishwasher, I gave up. I still don't know why they got married; it went something along the lines of, "We knew each other from childhood. I fell in love, even though he was pretty awful most of the time. We got married. We bought a dishwasher.", except with added detail about the colour of the wallpaper. I've read children's short stories which have held more emotion than this.

So, yeah. A let-down.