'I loved LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY and am devastated to have finished it!' NIGELLA LAWSON 'A book that sparks joy with every page' ELIZABETH DAY '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 Suffice to say Elizabeth’s life is worth reading about. The programme is a huge success – but wait! I can’t tell you any more without giving the game away. Using science, not conventional baking as a grounding she teaches woman to defy the norm without even being conscious of what she is achieving. Almost by mistake Elizabeth finds herself the mother of a child as well as the lead in a new television programme on cooking. (The dog is very much part of the story). But life is unpredictable, Calvin is killed in a car accident, his loveable dog Six-Thirty beside him. Elizabeth Zott falls in love with scientist Calvin Evans who seems to be one of the few males of the then 1960s that does not have a fixed and limited idea of the role of women in those times.
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