Lessons in Chemistry : The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick by Bonnie Garmus

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts where chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.

But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results.

Like science, life is unpredictable. This is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride) proves revolutionary.

But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.
The list comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.

Details

• Format:Hardback 400 pages
• Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint:Doubleday
• ISBN:9780857528124
• Published:5 Apr 2022
• Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Feminism & feminist theory
• Readership:General (US: Trade) Professional & Vocational Tertiary Education (US: College)
• Weight:514g
• Dimensions:145 x 224 x 38 (mm)
• Pub. Country:United Kingdom
• Country of Origin:GB
• Tariff Codes:49019900
• For sale in: United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France