Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018*

'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer

On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminat