Kate Moore is a Sunday Times bestselling writer with more than a decade's experience in writing across varying genres, including memoir and biography and history. She was the director of the critically acclaimed play about The Radium Girls called 'These Shining Lives'.
'Kate Moore's new book will move, shock and anger you.' * The Big
Issue *
'This fascinating social history - one that significantly
reflects on the class and gender of those involved - [is] Catherine
Cookson meets Mad Men . . . The importance of the brave and
blighted dial-painters cannot be overstated.' * Sunday Times *
'Thrilling and carefully crafted.' * Mail on Sunday *
'Heartfelt.' * Sunday Telegraph *
'Kate Moore . . . writes with a sense of drama that carries one
through the serpentine twists and turns of this tragic but
ultimately uplifting story.' * The Spectator *
'Fascinating yet tragic.' * The Sun *
'Heartbreaking . . . what this book illustrates brilliantly
is that battling for justice against big corporations isn't easy.'
* BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour *
'A perfect blend of the historical, the scientific and the
personal, this richly detailed book sheds a whole new light on this
unique element and the role it played in changing workers' rights.
The Radium Girls makes it impossible for you to
ignore these women's incredible stories, and proves why
now, more than ever, we can't afford to ignore science, either.' *
Bustle *
'Carefully researched, the work will stun readers with its
descriptions of the glittering artisans who, oblivious to health
dangers, twirled camel-hair brushes to fine points using their
mouths.' * Publishers Weekly *
'Moore's harrowing but humane story describes the struggle of a few
brave women who took their case to court in a fight for justice
that is still resonant today.' * Saga *
'Kate Moore's The Radium Girls tells the story of a cohort
of women who made history by entering the workforce at the
dawn of a new scientific era . . . Moore sheds new light on a dark
chapter in American labour history; the radium girls . . . live
again in her telling.' -- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author
'Kate Moore's gripping narrative about the betrayal of the
radium girls - gracefully told and exhaustively researched -
makes this a non-fiction classic. Moore's compassion for her
subjects and her story-telling prowess . . . bring alive a shameful
era in America's industrial history.' -- Rinker Buck, author of The
Oregon Trail
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