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HomeThe Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky—until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal.

  •  Last updated: September 8, 2023

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-The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, Large Print Book, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook CD, and eAudiobook formats.

Bustle Review: The Radium Girls

"This Book Tells The Untold Story Of The Women Who Lost Their Lives To Radium"

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The Star. "Former employees of General Electric Peterborough say they are disappointed in the results of a workers’ compensation board review of denied cancer claims"

Kate Moore Author Biography

The Radium Girls Website. "The Radium Girls, the first-ever narrative non-fiction account of this inspirational true story."

Kirkus Review: The Radium Girls

"Moore offers such vivid portraits of suffering that certain passages can be difficult to read, but this is an important..."

LitLovers Discussion Questions – The Radium Girls

List of 5 discussion questions.

NPR Review: The Radium Girls

"'The Radium Girls' Is Haunted By Glowing Ghosts"

San Francisco Book Review: The Radium Girls

"The Radium Girls is a tragedy chronicling many years of hard work, sacrifice, and suffering."

Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls

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The Girls With Radioactive Bones

The Atlantic. "How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation, and fought for safety standards"

The Times Review: The Radium Girls

"The fight for justice for the dial painters killed by radium exposure"

University of Waterloo Review: The Radium Girls

"The Radium Girls chronicles the dial painting industry and the women who painted these dials with radium–based paint."

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