HT reviewer Teja Lele picks her favourite read of 2023
I picked up Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry amid a particularly long reading slump earlier this year. I didn’t expect much of a reaction, pun intended, but the copywriter’s debut novel blew me away. And just like that, I was back in my reading “element”! About challenging norms and fighting for equality in the 1960s (Penguin) Published by Doubleday in April 2022, Lessons in Chemistry is set in the 1950s and 1960s, and tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist forced out of her hard-won job at a…