Read with Cyn’s Workshop May Book Club Pick

Hey there, everyone! Welcome to another month of reading! Once again, I’m so happy you all have stuck around and joined me on my reading journey. I love reading along with you all! This May, we will be reading The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner! I am so excited to begin reading this book with you all!

Below is the reading schedule. Again, this is just a suggestion to follow; you can always read ahead. This is so that we know kind of where everyone is at and don’t spoil it for anyone else in case we come upon gasp moments we have to talk about.

I can’t wait to hear what you guys think of it!

The Lost Apothecary

by Sarah Penner

A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them – setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.

Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.

Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose – selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.

In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate – and not everyone will survive.

Reading Schedule

Reading Dates:

May 5th – June 5th

May 5th – May 11th

Chapters 1 – 8

May 12th – May 18th

Chapters 9 – 16

May 19th – May 25th

Chapters 17 – 25

May 26th – June 1st

Chapter 26 – End

Chat Dates:

May 15th

Chapters 1 – 8

May 22nd

Chapters 9 – 16

May 29th

Chapters 17 – 25

June 5th

Chapter 26 – End

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