Lessons in Chemistry

#1 NEW YORK TIMES SELLER * GMA BOOKCLUB PICK* Meet Elizabeth Zott, "a gifted researcher chemist who is absurdly confident and immune to social norms" (The Washington Post), in 1960s California whose life takes a turn when she becomes an unlikely star of a popular TV cooking show. * APPLE TELEVISION+ SERIES TO BE RELEASED LATER THIS YEAR This novel is "irresistible and satisfying" (The New York Times Book Review), and "witty and sometimes humorous...the Catch-22 in early feminism".

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Elizabeth Zott, a chemist, is not an average woman. Elizabeth Zott is the first person to say that there's no such thing as a "typical woman". It's early 1960s, and the all-male Hastings Research Institute team has a nonscientific approach to equality. Calvin Evans, the brilliant, lonely grudge-holder and Nobel Prize nominee who falls in love - of all things - with her mind. True chemistry is the result.

Life is unpredictable, just like science. Elizabeth Zott, a single mom at the time, was reluctantly cast as a star on America's most popular cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unconventional approach to cooking ("combine 1 tablespoon of acetic with a pinch sodium chloride") is revolutionary. Not everyone is happy with her growing popularity. Elizabeth Zott teaches women how to cook, but she's not the only one. She dares them to challenge the status quo.

Lessons in Chemistry, as funny as it is original, has a cast of characters that are as colorful and lively as the protagonist.