Literary · Historical
Lessons in Chemistry
In the early 1960s, a brilliant chemist is pushed out of the laboratory world and ends up hosting a television cooking show. She treats cooking as science and her audience as capable adults.
- First published
- 2022
- Pace
- medium
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a warm, funny story about stubborn competence, sexism and a very good dog.
Skip this if you want a subtle book; the villains are plain and the message is delivered loudly.
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