Lessons in Chemistry (Special HB edition with Sprayed Edges)

<b>Bonnie Garmus</b> is a copywriter and creative director who has worked for a wide range of clients in the US and abroad focusing primarily on technology medicine and education. She’s an open water swimmer a rower and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Most recently from Seattle she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog 99. <b>* The multi-million-copy bestseller *<br><br>* THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *<br><br>* STREAM ON APPLE TV+ *<br><br><i>Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here</i></b><br><br>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 as an average woman. 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.<br><br>But like science life is unpredictable. Which 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.<br><br>Laugh-out-loud funny shrewdly observant and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.<br>__________<br><br><b>A Book of the Year for:<br>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</b><br><br><b>Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award<br>Author of the Year at the British Book Awards<br>As read on BBC Radio Four<br>A BBC TV 'Between the Covers' pick<br>Hay Festival Book of the Year<br>Winner of the Books are My Bag Reader's Choice Award<br>Winner of the Books are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award<br>Shortlisted for the HWA Crown Award</b>