Rather long, perhaps, but I found it fascinating.

Beautifully written, if a bit muddled at times. Would have liked to seen more positive light shed on Stephen. I felt I only saw the downside of their relationship. The story would've benefited from others' insight and more self reflection. But her true feelings show through the way she writes of him. A moving tribute and fascinating insight on the complexities of being married to a genius and someone with such health problems.

It's amazing what people do for love. Heartbreaking story, without doubt Stephen couldn't have achieved half as much without her. To dedicate herself entirely to him only for him to leave her for one of his nurses.

However, I wish the book had been a better edited - there was a lot of unnecessary detail I didn't care about and it was hard to get through at times.

Being married to Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant minds ever, would have been challenging and Jane describes just how challenging it all was. As Stephen's disability increased and thus his mobility decreased, Jane had to take on more and more to help him get where he needed to be in order to continue his research.

This also meant raising their children almost single handedly and putting her own research on the back burner. Jane is an academic in her own right and in the support of her husband, she had to push aside her own ambitions and aspirations which would be difficult on anyone.

This is a fascinating account of life in the shadows of greatness and provides insights into the joys, their shared passions but also the hardships and frustrations of this life.

I did find some of the detail about, not only Stephen's research but her own interesting, but perhaps a little too detailed which then interrupted the narrative.

Fascinating to read her perspective - one the media did not cover.

I haven't watched the movie, but I really enjoyed this book. This is a story about Jane Hawking and 25 years of marriage including their relationship before. We all know that Stephen Hawking is a singular scientist, but we didn't know, his life including his family is really hard more than we can imagine. Yes, I know that he has motor neuron disease, but this book showed that the Hawkings really struggle in daily basis. Jane Hawking told the story with honesty and raw emotion, I felt like heard my mum/my aunt told me the story, this book is so alive.

Jane Hawking is a remarkable (and underappreciated) woman indeed, I guess there's some truth behind the quote "behind the great man there is greater woman"

I thought this book gave incredible insight not only into Stephen Hawking's life and achievements, but also into Jane's, I had no idea what an incredible woman she was. Definitely worth reading, and written in such a way that nobody comes off as the bad guy.

I read this after watching the film. I found the book to be an unadulterated glimpse into the life at Cambridge. The author seems to really care what others think of her. The book is filled with justifications of why her decisions are necessary and why others should not judge her. She seems unfortunately very angsty. By comparison, Stephen Hawking comes across very confident in his own book -- though he probably can afford much better editors who can help guide his tone.

It was interesting to see the behind the scenes of the Hawkings family, even though the account is somewhat unreliable-narrator.

Some parts of this were incredibly interesting and well written which is why I've given this book an overall 3 star rating. However, I found this book had little to do with her life with Stephen, in fact i feel this book only complains about how she had to look after someone who was EXTREMELY DISABLED. There's barely anything about his character or who he was as a person. The way she describes him is only when she found him 'unbareable' or when he was being 'difficult'. Basically this book was written so she could get some sympathy because her like was a big, sad mess where she barely had any time to herself and was constantly overlooked. Poor her, no one would pay her any attention :( /s.