Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry

The multi-million-copy bestseller

Summary

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD
Now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson


'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times
'Thought-provoking and stylish' Guardian
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Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she 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 leave her job at the institute, she soon finds herself the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six.

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. One molecule at a time.
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A Book of the Year for:
Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman & Home, Stylist, TLS Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, India Knight, Hay Festival, Waterstones, Amazon, Books are My Bag and many more


Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award
Author of the Year at the British Book Awards
As read on BBC Radio Four
A BBC TV 'Between the Covers' pick
Hay Festival Book of the Year
Winner of the Books are My Bag Reader's Choice Award
Winner of the Books are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award
Shortlisted for the HWA Crown Award


'I loved Lessons in Chemistry and am devastated to have finished it!' Nigella Lawson
'Laugh-out-loud funny and brimming with life, generosity and courage' Rachel Joyce
'Witty and sometimes hilarious ... the Catch-22 of early feminism' Stephen King

Reviews

  • 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

About the author

Bonnie Garmus

BONNIE GARMUS is a copywriter and creative director who has worked widely in the fields of technology, medicine and education. She is an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two wonderful daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99. Her first novel, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY has been a No.1 Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller as well as a No. 1 bestseller internationally. It was voted Hay Festival Book of the Year by readers, won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. Bonnie Garmus is also a Waterstones and Books Are My Bag Author of the Year and also won the Readers' Choice Award voted for by Independent booksellers. She also won Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. Translated into more than forty languages, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY has been adapted as an Apple TV series starring Brie Larson.
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