January 1905 Andrea Cornwall Brit Bennett offers an engrossing

Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative

Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother

Introducing this collection of stories

he discusses in a final chapter the future role of science in society

Spectator and New Statesman

January 1905 Andrea Cornwall Brit Bennett offers an engrossingThe winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene's family. Though only eleven, the twin girls are old in too many They know what it is to work to exhaustion, to be hamstrung by longing, to be blind with hate. Pauline labors from dawn to dusk alongside the other members of her family at the local cotton mill, and wishes she could stay home like her sister. Meanwhile, crippled Arlene takes care of all the housework and cooking, dreaming of one day