My friend recommended this book to me and I understand why, I cannot put it down, a really great read. STREAM ON APPLE TV+ This novel is irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel (The New York Times Book Review) and witty, sometimes hilarious.

It won the German Independent Booksellers Favorite book of the Year (Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen Buchhandlungen 2022 [10]), the Hay Festival Book of the Year 2022, [11] Dymocks Book of the Year 2022 (Australia), [12] Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Debut 2022, [13] and many other honors. Evans proposes in the staff dining room, but Zott rejects him, citing concerns that as her husband Evans would be given credit for all of her work.

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Brie Larson, the eventual winner, contacted the author by video asking for permission to make a bid. Lessons in Chemistry was written after Garmus's previous novel received 98 publisher rejections, which she says was because it was "too long" in an interview with People. During the debut, Zott ignores the cue cards Pine had written for her, which is met with disapproval.

The lives of Rafiq’s three children becoming increasingly dependent on their relationship to money:Siver, the only daughter, escapes into an unhappy marriage in Baghdad before fleeing to raise her daughter as a single mother in Dubai. A smart, funny, big-hearted debut combining chemical elements into what seems a winning formula—one whose breakneck pace and gently ironic tone should appeal to readers of literary-commercial hits by American authors such as Katherine Heiny, Emma Straub and Curtis Sittenfeld. I loved this story, it's setting, the quirky and convincing characters, even the science and I certainly did not excel at that when a schoolgirl.