HELEN PEARSON is a science journalist and editor for the international science journal Nature. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her works have won accolades, including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and two best-feature awards from the Association of British Science Writers. She is now based in London.
No other country has anything like it on the same scale,’ says Pearson in this spellbinding, carefully sourced and elegantly outlined account of these birth cohort studies. — The Guardian