The Honest Look by Jennifer L Rohn
In becoming a scientist, Claire Cyrus hopes to escape the fate of her dead father, a brilliant but critically unsuccessful poet whose poverty and bitterness derailed her own strong talent for verse. Soon after moving from England to take up her first job in a start-up biotech company in the Netherlands, she finds herself an outcast in her strange new environment, shunned by her jealous colleagues and moving only on the fringes of the expatriate community. But when she makes an accidental discovery in the lab, her life will never be the same again. The Honest Look is a tale of passion, betrayal and a devastating secret that threatens to bring down careers, a company and a widely accepted scientific theory. Unfolding in the modern corporate laboratory, where the idealism of advancing knowledge and the uncompromising reality of profit margins exist in uneasy truce, this is a story of how people with various stakes in a common endeavour react when its integrity is called into question, and how these reactions can be shaped--and warped--by denial, greed, hatred and love.Jennifer Rohn leads a cell biology research lab at University College London in the United Kingdom, studying how bacteria outwit human cells during infection. In her spare time, she moonlights as a science writer, journalist, broadcaster and pundit. She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap and on the Guardian, and has written for a number of outlets including The Times, The Guardian, Nature, The Telegraph, and the BBC. She also created and continues to run the science culture online magazine LabLit.com, which has been highlighted in the New York Times, US National Public Radio, the Guardian and the Boston Globe. 'Lab lit', a term she coined, is a tiny but growing genre of mainstream fiction about scientists and science as a profession (as opposed to science fiction). She speaks frequently to live audiences, and appears on TV, radio, on podcasts and as an expert in science documentaries. She is the author of two other lab lit novels: Experimental Heart and The Honest Look, and has also published short fiction. She is also no stranger to rebellion, having founded Science is Vital, a well-known grassroots organization campaigning for UK research funding. Born and raised in the United States, Jennifer became a naturalized British citizen and now lives in Gravesend, Kent (not far from the action in this novel) with her husband and son. Find out more at jennyrohn.com, and follow her on Twitter at @jennyrohn.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781936113118 |
| ISBN 10 | 1936113112 |
| Title | The Honest Look |
| Author | Jennifer L Rohn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2010-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 343 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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