Lessons in Chemistry
The modern classic multi-million-copy bestseller
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4.5 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
OVER 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
Meet Elizabeth Zott. Scientist. Trailblazer. Rule-breaker.
The multi-award-winning international bestseller, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson.
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There is no such thing as an average woman. Especially not Elizabeth Zott.
It's the early 1960s, and Elizabeth is a brilliant chemist working in a world that believes science is a man's job.
At Hastings Research Institute, the only colleague who truly recognises her extraordinary mind is Calvin Evans, a brilliant, Nobel Prize-nominated chemist. But life has other plans.
When Elizabeth becomes the reluctant star of America's most popular cooking show, Supper at Six, she refuses to tell women simply how to cook. Instead, she teaches them to question the rules, trust themselves and change their lives.
As millions tune in, Elizabeth is no longer demonstrating recipes. She is challenging the status quo, one molecule at a time.
Perfect for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Wedding People - an unforgettable novel about love, resilience and the courage to rewrite the rules
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A New York Times Top 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Reader's Pick
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Novel
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Reader's Choice Award
British Book Awards Author of the Year
Waterstones Author of the Year
Readers love Lessons in Chemistry:
'Everyone needs to read this.'
'The best book I have read this year. Funny, warm and utterly unique.'
'Funny, honest and heart-wrenching. I was hooked until the very end.'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus strikes an addictive balance between wit and sentiment (and, of course, a little science). At the novel’s centre is Elizabeth Zott. A female research chemist in the 1950s, Elizabeth is an isolated figure rarely shown the respect she deserves, facing misogyny and harassment at seemingly every turn. Her past has not been without tragedy, and her future won’t be either, but Elizabeth’s intelligence, self-possession and unwillingness to suffer fools are what define her. In a book that takes in love, motherhood and its heroine’s unlikely ascent to stardom as a feminist TV cook, she is joined by a cast of eccentric yet instantly likeable supporting characters—including a remarkably gifted canine. Deeply capable yet treated as underdogs, they help each other to take on an unfair world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Garmus debuts with a perplexing feminist fairy tale set in 1960s Southern California. Plucky chemist Elizabeth Zott believes she's not like other women ("Most of the women she'd met in college claimed they were only there to get their MRS," Garmus writes. "It was disconcerting, as if they'd all drunk something that had rendered them temporarily insane"). She proceeds to fall madly in love with her colleague, have his child, and then, after being sidelined by double standards, sexual harassment, and scandal around her pregnancy, she's dismissed from her job and becomes an overnight sensation as the host of a daytime cooking show. This trajectory, and its few tragedies, are intermittently interrupted by the anthropomorphized thoughts of her dog, Six-Thirty: "Humans were strange, Six-Thirty thought, the way they constantly battled dirt in their aboveground world, but after death willingly entombed themselves in it." In the end, everything works out—not because the patriarchy is destroyed or fairness is achieved, but thanks to the favors of a rich female benefactor equipped to strike back at those who humiliated Zott. While the scenes of Zott hosting her show do have their charm, the overall effect is about as deep as a Hallmark card. The author has a great voice, but contemporary readers will be left wondering who this is for.
