The Radium Girls, Kate Moore

A well-written, well-researched novel about a grim point in our Nation’s history - one I admit I knew nothing about. Girls using radium to make the faces on dial watches glow in the dark. The radium is deadly, a secret held by those profiting from it and at the cost of the girls’ lives. It is a tragic story of how quickly this poisoned eroded these young women’s bodies and how little compensation their families were given. A tragic story.

While many rave about the book, and the movie, I found both difficult - not because they were poorly written, but perhaps that it moved too slow for my taste.

This is a very good book for its content and story, perhaps just not my cup of tea.