Sarah Penner is the author of The Lost Apothecary, a novel set in current time and also the 1770's in London near the Thames. The apothecary, in the 1770's provided, upon request, medicines that were poisonous. She does this for women in order to liberate them from the men who have wronged them. In present day London Caroline is visiting from Ohio on what was supposed to be a celebratory trip of her ten year anniversary. Before she left she found out her husband was unfaithful so she went alone to process the news. She joined a mudlarking excursion. Mudlarking is looking for old items in the mud of the Thames river. She finds a blue vial made of glass. On the vial is a crude image of a bear. She starts to do some research. Eventually she finds the story about the apothecary. I enjoyed this historical fiction book.
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