Alice is a British physicist on her way to a research job at The Institute for Advanced Studies, New Jersey.
A celebration of the human heart in all its frailty, confusion and excess, Gut Symmetries, explores parallel lives, loves and universes..
Alice\'s parents - her father a working class boy made good from the dockyards of Liverpool, her mother, an Irish beauty - and Alice\'s grandmother
Bible-fearing, tough, still going out to work in her nineties, a kind of mythological creature, a worker of small miracles.
Stella\'s parents - one German, one Jewish - who fled Nazi Germany together.
Alongside this love triangle are the stories of previous generations.
Their affair quickly becomes complicated when Alice falls for Jove\'s wife, Stella.
Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2 she meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the most respected quantum physicists in the world and a confirmed lothario.
Alice is a British physicist on her way to a research job at The Institute for Advanced Studies, New Jersey
