As read on BBC Radio 4 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award Hay Festival Book of the Year A Book of the Year in: Guardian; Times; Sunday Times; Good Housekeeping; Woman and Home; Stylist; TLS; Oprah Daily; Newsweek; Mail on Sunday; New York Times Notable; and many others 'Sparky; rip-roaring; funny; with big-hearted fully formed; loveable characters' SUNDAY TIMES 'The most charming; life-enhancing novel I've read in ages. Strongly recommend' INDIA KNIGHT 'Laugh-out-loud funny and brimming with life; generosity and courage' RACHEL JOYCE 'A novel that sparks joy with every page' ELIZABETH DAY ____________ Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact; Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Forced to resign; she reluctantly signs on as the host of a cooking show; Supper at Six. But her revolutionary approach to cooking; fuelled by scientific and rational commentary; grabs the attention of a nation. Soon; a legion of overlooked housewives find themselves daring to change the status quo. One molecule at a time. __________ SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIAL; STARRING BRIE LARSON 'I loved Lessons in Chemistry and am devastated to have finished it!' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Elizabeth Zott is an iconic heroine - a feminist who refuses to be quashed; a mother who believes that her child is a person to behold; rather than to mould; and who will leave you; and the lens through which you see the world; quite changed' PANDORA SYKES 'It's the world versus Elizabeth Zott; and I had no trouble choosing a side. A page-turning and highly satisfying tale: zippy; zesty; and Zotty' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD; author of GREAT CIRCLE