Nothing So Strange
by James Hilton
This is the story of two modern people – a young American, both a scientist and a human being, facing some of the biggest challenges of our time; and the girl who gave him all her heart and brain. Jane was only eighteen when she met Dr. Mark Bradley in London. He and his mother were drawn to "Brad", and the situation turned out to be fatal, as this led to Brad's relationship with the great Viennese physicist and his involvement in the tragic drama. But there was another drama that pulled him into his expanding trajectory, a drama that became a mystery and then an obsession. Discovering but defending, Jane's love forms a solid thread in the deeply moving and pattern of important events – strange events – and yet, to quote Daniel Webster, there is often nothing as "strange" as the truth. Although the previous scenes of "Nothing Very Surprising" were set abroad, his worldview is American, and his climax can only take place in America. It's as exciting and human as anything Mr. Hilton has written.
