📗 Libro en inglés THE RADIUM GIRLS

Emma Watson s Our Shared Shelf book club choice New York Times bestseller Fascinating Sunday Times Thrilling Mail on Sunday All they wanted was the chance to shine Be careful what you wish for The first thing we asked was Does this stuff hurt you And they said No The company said that it wasn t dangerous that we didn t need to be afraid As the First World War spread across the world young American women flocked to work in factories painting clocks watches and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium It was a fun job lucrative and glamorous the girls shone brightly in the dark covered head to toe in dust from the paint However as the years passed the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses It turned out that the very thing that had made them feel alive their work was slowly killing them the radium paint was poisonous Their employers denied all responsibility but these courageous women in the face of unimaginable suffering refused to accept their fate quietly and instead became determined to fight for justice Drawing on previously unpublished diaries letters and interviews The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative of an unforgettable true story It is the powerful tale of a