Caboodle Firsts: Get one of 100 copies of Lessons in Chemistry before it hits the shelves

Lessons in Chemistry

We're giving 100 Caboodlers the chance to read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, before it's out in April. 

'Your ability to change everything – including yourself – starts here.' Elizabeth Zott

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. 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 like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott 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 as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott.


"I loved Lessons in Chemistry and am devastated to have finished it!" - Nigella Lawson

Read the first three chapters

 

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This competition ended on 10/02/2022

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100 entrants will receive a copy of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

  • By entering this competition, you also agree to the Caboodle Terms and Conditions and Caboodle Points Terms and Conditions.
  • Closing date: 11:59pm, Thursday 10th February 2022.
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  • Entrants must be aged 16 or over.
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