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Book Review of THE LOST APOTHECARY

The Lost Apothecary is one of my favorite books of 2021. BOOM! I’ve said it. This debut novel by Sarah Penner has been making waves across the literary world, and it’s easy to see why: one page, one paragraph into the story, and I was completely sucked in, like a muddy boot into the bottom of the Thames. Penner’s writing is as gorgeous as The Lost Apothecary’s book cover. (Fellow writers: you know the “unicorn author” that we all...