I love the story ,quirky and unusual, and the characters are so fine drawn I would recognise them in the street . Six-Thirty, the dog, is my favourite character ever and would have been great as narrator throughout the whole book. Lessons in Chemistry is a bestselling novel by Bonnie Garmus that follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who faces discrimination in the male-dominated field of science in the early 1960s.

While the novel focuses on serious themes of misogyny, feminism, family, and self-worth, it never gets didactic. It’s a novel full of dark moments…and yet Lessons in Chemistry feels richly funny…Elizabeth Zott is a unique heroine, and you find yourself wishing she wasn’t fictional: A lot of us—perhaps even Julia Child—might have enjoyed watching ‘Supper at Six. There’s a scene early on in Bonnie Garmus’s novel “Lessons in Chemistry” in which Elizabeth Zott, a redoubtable chemist thwarted at every turn by a hidebound 1950s establishment, is given career advice by a male colleague: “Don’t work the system. The writing is so precise, the characters breathe off the page, and the voice is so strong throughout this book, I could not put it down. Set in the early 1950s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one.Darkly funny and poignant, Lessons in Chemistry paints an extraordinary portrait of an unusual life in 1960s California…Irresistible, a gorgeous tribute to resilience and the many types of love that sustain us. Bailey opined that the final plot twist was rushed and the character writing seemed monotone, concluding with " Lessons in Chemistry is ultimately a work of fantasy.

One of her colleagues is Calvin, an introverted, socially awkward Nobel-prize nominated scientist with a penchant for holding grudges, which is one of the things Elizabeth first admires in him, for “Elizabeth Zott held grudges too”, especially against a society that all but forbade women to do anything of importance. I READ TO ChAPTER 2 ,AND DON'T THINK L CAN STAND THE PETIness OF A MOTHER BEING UPSE T BCAUSE HER DAUGHTER'S LUNCH BOx IS BEING EATEN BY ANOTHER KID. Garmus] presents a rollicking feminist tale full of humor and hope even as she doesn’t shy away from life’s ugliness. Three years later, Zott decides to enroll Madeline in kindergarten early, modifying her birth certificate to do so. Lessons in Chemistry is, in addition to being a very funny novel, refreshingly earnest, a word I use carefully and as a high compliment.I liked it because it felt very much like a story - it didn't feel 'real' in any way, in fact someone did describe it as fantasy and in some ways, it sort of was.