This is good. So good that I am going to nominate it as one of my all time favourite books, right up there with A Gentleman in Moscow my Amor Townes. It only took me a few pages to realise that I had found a book in an entirely different league to most other novels I read. It's the kind of book that brings back the joy of reading through cleverly written prose. I think that is the key to the whole book, it's clever. Set in the early 1960s, it perfectly captures the difficulties of being a woman in a man's world. If you think the workplace is a hard slog now, you really aren't old enough to remember that time when the kind of office politics that was generally accepted then would see people arrested if the same thing happened today. Women were always to blame, even if the woman was the victim, and any complaints to the management could easily result in the woman being fired. Senior men were untouchable. Elizabeth Zott is a research chemist....