Encore: Bonnie Garmus on the spark of anger which began a whole new life, in her 60s

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When author Bonnie Garmus tried to sell her first novel, it was rejected 98 times, but then at 66, she wrote a novel called Lessons in Chemistry, which sold four million copies around the world. Bonnie had wanted to be a novelist since she was five years old. Decades later, she was a copywriter, an open-water swimmer and a rower when she tried to sell her first novel. After many rejections, she realised it would never be published. One day Bonnie was at work when a male colleague took credit…