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. Kirkus Reviews said that "a more adorable plea for rationalism and gender equality would be hard to find. Bonnie Garmus Says Her First Novel Was Rejected 98 Times Before 'Lessons in Chemistry' Success (Exclusive)".

Based on the 2022 novel written by Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry is a feminist underdog story set in the 1950s that centers around Elizabeth Zott. Pine, a local television producer, offers her a job as a cooking show host due to her unique personality.So I was especially grateful to find myself in the world of Elizabeth Zott and Lessons in Chemistry, a cheerful, cinematic, whip-smart novel about finding one’s family and the ongoing fight for gender equality.

A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. 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. Indefatigable and formidable, Elizabeth pushes the bounds of how women and their work are perceived in this thoroughly engaging debut novel. I thought the story, the character, and her flaws were brilliant, but my book club was full of mixed reviews; they scoffed her methods of mothering.Elizabeth Zott is a character literature needs, but - beautifully, so is Mad and Harriet and Calvin and Walter and Six-Thirty. Her approach catches the attention of overlooked housewives who find inspiration to challenge the status quo and create change one molecule at a time. The novel takes strides in encouraging women in the STEM industries and addresses the entrenched frameworks of misogyny and sexism that still challenge women in society and the workforce today. Entirely enjoyable, totally engrossing novel, Garmus' beautifully drawn characters, her polished, engaging prose and a hugely satisfying plot make for a glorious read.

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 and Calvin strike up a sparring working relationship, start dating, and move in together — unmarried (the horror! During the debut, Zott ignores the cue cards Pine had written for her, which is met with disapproval. Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family. Witty, fast-paced and unabashedly amusing' Lessons in Chemistry is 'written with charm, verve and piercing insight .Fuel for learning, Elizabeth Zott wrote on a small slip of paper before tucking it into her daughter’s lunch box. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobelprize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love withof all thingsher mind.