A Very Good Read

Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Believe all the plaudits, this book is brilliant, I knew I was going to love it from the first page. The writing is sharp and delicious, laugh-out-loud funny and shrewdly observant. One minute I was laughing, the next I was plotting revenge on the odious, misogynistic creeps that dominated the workplace. Dr Mason, the obstetrician, was the only kind, decent man Elizabeth met.  

   
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth 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.

     
But life, like science, is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth isn’t just teaching women to cook, she’s encouraging them to change the status quo. Elizabeth is a heroine, she refuses to be quashed.

   

I thoroughly recommend it.

∼ Happy Reading∼ 

Polly x