Base ten: a novel

Reared to believe that she could do anything, astrophysicist Jillian Greer dreamed of going into space.

When she and her research partner Kera Sullivan invented a specialized telescope, it looked as though these two dogged scientists would fulfill the dream they shared.

But ten years later, as Kera trains in a space simulator, Jillian is married and a mother, packing lunches and helping her kids with homework.

As her fortieth birthday (the unofficial age limit of the space program) draws near, Jillian decides that things have to change.