Awards

• Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012
• Winner of New York Times Notable Selection 2012

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Florence William's double-D talents as a reporter and writer lift this book high above the genre and separate it from the ranks of ordinary science writing. Breasts is illuminating, surprising, clever, important. Williams is an author to savor and look forward to. Mary Roach ...an engagingly written book... BBC Focus You certainly won't regret reading Breasts. The Guardian ...Florence Williams's tome...is a fascinating - and occasionally frightening - exploration of these most fetishised of body parts. Evening Standard Florence Williams deserves our gratitude for bringing the general issue to our attention...and for educating, stimulating and entertaining us along the way. The Times Literary Supplement Florence Williams's excellent book shines light on a much-misunderstood part of the body...Breasts is a seriously good book. It's well written, scientifically literate, engrossing and occasionally terrifying. New Statesman ...a witty, well-researched and eminently readable book. Literary Review Williams's great success is in proving that breasts are even more fascinating inside than out... The Scotsman Highly informative and remarkably entertaining... Elle

Much like [Mary Roach's] Stiff, Breasts benefits from its author's field trips. . . . Seen this way--the breast as a canary in a toxic coal mine--[Williams's] call to protect them feels both timely and urgent.

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Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, and her articles and essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Washington, DC.

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