That's right on that books to watch out for show right of course a while so I mean, it's done incredibly well here. It was a book of the year Guardian, the times that Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping magazine, women and home stylist in America, Oprah Newsweek, New York Times, it's been championed by people at Indian night, the hay festival, Amazon have been promoting it left, right and centre, you know, it's on the radar, it's about as much on the radar as it can possibly be. And everybody seems to love it with the result that I you know, kind of have been running a mile from reading it in that perverse way that I do when books that successful there's something in me that's like, Well, I'm not reading that. It's like, I don't know, whether I'm worried because they're popular. I think it might be a little bit to do with my weariness about being disappointed. You know, when you have really high expectations about something because it's been so champion, and also that slight weariness about a publicity buzz. And you know, is the book going to deliver I've been burned before, but I was flying back from my very enjoyable visit with you a few weeks ago. And I have this with me and I was on the plane and I'm not crazy about flying and I had finished my other book and I wanted something that was gonna just distract me. I felt like you know, not to heavier read a plane, there's no time to tackle the weighty classics. I find you know, you want something like that's really going to carry you away. I thought, Ah, this is the moment for lessons in chemistry. And so I picked it up and I started to read it and I am so glad that I did. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott will 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 forced to resign she reluctantly signs on as the host of a cooking show supper at six. But her revolutionary approach to cooking fueled by scientific and rational commentary grabs the attention of a nation. Soon a legion of overlooked housewives find themselves daring to change the status quo one molecule at a time. That's obviously the blurb from the back. But this is the main character. Elizabeth is not who you absolutely root for be hard to say you identify with her because she's such an extraordinary person. She is one of those minds that is most at home in their field of science. It's what she loves, lives and breathes and lives for and yet, due to the misogyny of the male dominated scientific world at the time, there is not really a place for her no one takes her seriously. You know, they think that she should be organising the beakers rather than actually doing her own scientific research. And she's also a bit of a what's the word in the sort of Jigsaw of humanity. She's a piece that doesn't quite fit and So romantically it feels like a relationship isn't going to be for her. And then through the contrivances of the plot, she does meet a scientist with whom there is a spark. And this then leaves her with a young daughter, without revealing too much you find out quite early on on the book that he is not going to be in the picture. And so she's a single mother. She wants to be working as a chemist, but instead, she is forced out by the scandal of having a child out of wedlock. And then again, through contrivances of the plot, she ends up presenting this cooking show. And I would say, I mean, the writing is I was just thinking, it's so readable, and the characters leap off the page, but at the same time, the writing is just perfectly fine. It's not a book where you're going to be marvelling at the beauty and originality of the sentences. It just does what it needs to do, which is to propel the story along. And I also found the kind of obviousness sometimes of the feminism slightly over the top in a way that I just as I really think reg s is so come on, do we still need to be saying this, we still need to be reading about this. But you know what, at the same time, I thought, I was interested in the degree to which it really resonated with me, as I think it would resonate with any woman who is struggling to balance career and home life, and maybe family life and all the obligations that just seem to go with life in general. But then the extra complications that seem to come along with big female, and I just think there's never a time when that isn't going to resonate, or grab your attention. And this book is all about that. It is so enjoyable. And yes, the plot is a bit contrived. Yes, the characters are a bit thin. I didn't really ever buy the child whose that kind of thing it's quite tricky for authors to pull off a kind of super, super, super bright child. You know, like the idea that this five year old is reading the works of Dickens, you know, maybe because it's just so anomalous, but it's tricky to remember the child in that Richard powers, but we read bewilderment, yes. And Phil couldn't bear. Again, it's tricky. It's tricky to pull off and very fine writers struggle with it. But what I would say is, you know what, it does not matter. This book, Rolex along, it is hugely, hugely, hugely enjoyable. It's original. It's funny, it's just great. Riot have a read. I was so happy to read it. And Nigella Lawson said, I love lessons in chemistry. And I'm devastated to have finished it. And I felt the same because you know, ends and you're like, ah, because you just want to keep reading about this character. You just want to stay in this world. It was a treat. It was a real treat. So a rare example, I think, a big buzz book actually being worth buzzing about. Yes, definitely. Do you think there's likely to be a sequel? For sure. And they're filming it? I read that Brie Larson is going to be starring in the Netflix adaptation of it. It left me googling rowing, because Elizabeth salt is a rower. And you find yourself thinking, ooh, rowing. Yeah, maybe I could get into rowing. And I also felt quite interested in science, which to me, again, is very, you know, that's not really something I ever consider. So I was curious that the effect it had on me, yeah, I recommend it. I mean, maybe I need to follow the herd more often. Maybe I'm missing out by not following the herd. Maybe the herd knows something.