Lessons in Chemistry

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INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH PANDORA SYKES

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here

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 take a very unscientific view of equality. Forced to resign, she reluctantly signs on as the host of a cooking show, Supper at Six. But her revolutionary approach to cooking, fuelled by scientific and rational commentary, grabs the attention of a nation.

Soon, a legion of overlooked housewives find themselves daring to change the status quo. One molecule at a time.

‘Laugh-out-loud funny and brimming with life, generosity and courage’ RACHEL JOYCE

'A novel that sparks joy with every page' ELIZABETH DAY

'I loved Lessons in Chemistry and am devastated to have finished it!' NIGELLA LAWSON

© Bonnie Garmus 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

  • The most charming, life-enhancing novel I’ve read in ages. A perfect delight. It’s about Elizabeth Zott, a scientist who accidentally becomes a TV cook in the early 1960s. Very strongly recommend

    INDIA KNIGHT, SUNDAY TIMES

  • This triumphant feminist fable, wittily observed, is teeming with vivid comic set-pieces

    TELEGRAPH, Fiction of the Week

  • Polished, funny, thought-provoking. Wearing its research lightly but confidently with sentences so stylishly turned it’s hard to believe it’s a debut … The real pleasure is in the dry wit of Garmus’s writing

    GUARDIAN, Book of the day

  • Not only is Elizabeth an unforgettable character, so too are her adorable dog Six Thirty and daughter, Mad. This is a truly unique book with some great life lessons

    WOMAN AND HOME, Best Books of 2022

  • A book that sparks joy with every page. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY is both funny and rousing: it had me laughing one minute and air-punching the next. Bonnie Garmus has created an unforgettable heroine

    ELIZABETH DAY

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