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The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner

Start date: September 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Chosen by group members as a group BotM for September 2022.

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[close] Chosen by group members as a group BotM for September 2022.

Previously chosen by group members as our "flowers on the cover" themed group read for May 2021.

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What Members Thought

Mar 01, 2021 Bruin Mccon rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley, set-in-london, pub-2021

“I began to feel a fool for doubting Eliza’s claim that ghosts resided all around her. Perhaps I’d been wrong when I told her these spirits were only remnants of memories, creations of an invigorated imagination.”

The Lost Apothecary is a historical fiction novel about a poisonous herbalist.

In the early timeline (1790s) Nella lost her mom young, after her mother passed on the secrets of pharmacology. Yet Nella took her mother’s apothecary business in another direction and started helping women ki ...more

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May 04, 2021 Sandy rated it liked it

Shelves: 2021-reading-challenge

I listened to The Lost Apothecary audiobook as opposed to reading it so I don't know if I would have been as annoyed by Caroline if I had been reading the story but I found her manner of speaking (in the way the author wrote her conversations and thoughts) very annoying. It seemed stilted. It was different with Nella and Eliza because speech was different 200 years ago but for what was basically a current day person, her lack of contractions and the way she spoke wasn't comfortable to me.
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May 04, 2021 Karen D rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, mystery, suspense, surprise-twist, domestic-problems, detective, murder

This sucked me in right away. I always enjoy the alternating time period/historical mystery genre, and this does it really well!

Synopsis: In 1791, Nella is an apothecary, infamous for her role in providing poisons to help women. Eliza, a 12-year-old servant, has become her unexpected assistant, looking to escape a situation herself. In the present day, Caroline is visiting London, and discovers a 200-year-old vial, which launches her into an attempt to understand the role of the apothecary and ...more

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