Radium Halos
by Shelley Stout
Price: $2.99 USD. 76750 words.
Published by Girlebooks on July 3, 2009. .
Radium Halos is historical fiction based on the true events of the Radium Girls, female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning in the 1920s from painting luminous watch and clock dials with radium paint. "Shelley Stout reveals in her characters, the humanity of a tragic tale."
Batt Humphreys, former senior producer for CBS News and author of Dead Weight