Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I am back again with one of my most anticipated book reviews of the year: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. This is definitely my favourite book of the year!! I loved the author's witty and (at times) dark sense of humour and I fell in love with her characters even more. Elizabeth Zott is everything you could wish for in a female lead: she is strong, empowering and absolutely does not take no for an answer! Fearless, intelligent and always stays true to herself - the list is endless. But it isn't just Elizabeth who remains stuck in your mind. It is the characters who surround her who end up really tugging on your heart strings. There's the man who truly sees what she is capable of, the neighbour who is always there when she need her and the dog who is being taught English! This is a book that will carry you through ever single emotion; I laughed, I cried, I got angry and then I laughed all over again. It truly is a one-of-a-kind narrative!

About The Book:

Set in the 1960's, Bonnie Garmus' debut novel sees a young female scientist conquer absolutely every hurdle thrown in her direction. As the only female on her team, Elizabeth Zott is constantly judged on her beauty rather than her brains. To the men, she is useless. She won't make copies, get coffee or do any of the jobs that the other women do. To the women, she's a nightmare. She turns the heads of the men way too many times and she won't accept her place as a woman in a man's world. But to us, she's an inspiration. A vision of all the women who were born ahead of their time...

But, like many of her own experiments, Elizabeth's life soon becomes pretty unpredictable as she finds herself out of the lab and instead straight in front of the cameras on America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Forced to swap her test tubes and experiments for tea pots and aprons. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking is revolutionary and as her following continues to grow, it is clear that not everyone around her is happy about it. As it turns out, Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's daring them to change the status quo and to grab life with both hands!