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Lessons in Chemistry The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick Chemist Elizabeth Zo= is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zo= 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 Has*ngs Research Ins*tute take a very unscien*fic 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. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zo= 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 ace*c acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolu*onary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zo= isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo. __________ SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIAL 'I loved Lessons in Chemistry and am devastated to have finished it!' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Elizabeth Zo= is an iconic heroine - a feminist who refuses to be quashed, a mother who believes that her child is a person to behold, rather than to mould, and who will leave you, and the lens through which you see the world, quite changed' PANDORA SYKES 'It's the world versus Elizabeth Zo=, and I had no trouble choosing a side. A page-turning and highly sa*sfying tale: zippy, zesty, and Zo=y' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD, author of GREAT CIRCLE
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