Professor (cell biology, microbiology) at University College London, novelist, science communicator, media expert, editor of LabLit.com, messy gardener, purveyor of all things geek-chic...find out more at jennyrohn.com
I misread this as “Vanilla and Academia”, and wondered what it would smell like. Chalk dust? Sweaty undergraduates in an unventilated tutorial room? Despair?
Can highly recommend Catriona Silvey’s“Meet Me in Another Life”. Despite the deceptive sickly cover, it’s definitely NOT a romance novel, but page-turning, finely wrought and cerebral (at times, mind-blowing) #ScienceFiction, descriptions so evocative they’re imprinted in my memory