'Twisty and entertaining' HEAT, 'Read of the Week' 'Up there with Big little Lies and Desperate Housewives' CLAIRE ALLAN 'Jack Collins meets Miss Marple in this sassy whodunnit' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.'Smart, twisty and heartbreaking' TM LOGAN With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive - until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.īut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe they light up the night like industrious fireflies. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger
Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on’s classmates struck in different ways by her otherworldly beauty, Kwon Yeo-sun uses the well-worn form of a crime novel to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she’s lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.
Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those close to Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Two suspects quickly emerge, but alibis and the lack of evidence means the case goes cold. In the summer of 2002 eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. In this piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel, a woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.
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