The Women Are Not Fine: The untold story of the women behind the greatest mass poisoning of the 20th century
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The Women Are Not Fine: The untold story of the women behind the greatest mass poisoning of the 20th century
By (Author) Hope Reese
Octopus Publishing Group
BRAZEN
14th October 2025
10th July 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Violence, intolerance and persecution in history
True stories of survival of abuse and injustice
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Hardback
304
Width 156mm, Height 240mm
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The untold story of the women behind the greatest mass poisoning of the 20th century
The women in Nagyre v are desperate. They are suffering. 'They are being abused by their husbands.They are feeding their newborns to livestock.Midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas first arrived at the village of Nagyre v, Hungary in 1911 to assist the impoverished women with abortions. She offered them a solution: arsenic, made of kitchen larder flypaper boiled with vinegar. But when they told her of the violence they were suffering at the hands of their husbands, she concluded, "Why put up with them"Nearly twenty years later, it had spiralled into an epidemic and the greatest mass poisoning event of the 20th century. But it wasn't murder of their unborn children. It was the murder of their husbands. In THE WOMEN ARE NOT FINE we follow these women to the noose.Author Bio
Hope Reese is a journalist writing for the New York Times, Shondaland, Vox and dozens of other publications covering subjects ranging from culture to politics to technology. She is published in the collection Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo (Verso Books). The Women Are Not Fine is her first book.
