Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

First edition
Author	Marilynne Robinson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Non-Fiction
Publisher	FSG
Publication date	1989
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	272
ISBN	978-0-374-21361-9
Preceded by	Housekeeping
Followed by	'The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) is a work of nonfiction by Marilynne Robinson that tells the story of Sellafield, a government nuclear reprocessing plant located on the coast of the Irish Sea. The book shows how the closest village to Sellafield suffers from death and disease due to decades of waste and radiation from the plant. Mother Country was a National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction in 1989. While on Sabbatical in England, Robinson's interest in the environmental ramifications of the plant began when she discovered a newspaper article detailing its hazards.