The Lost Apothecary is a subversive and enthralling debut novel of secrets, retribution, and the surprising ways women can save each other despite the passage of time. It has crackling tension, unique characters, and searing insight. An peculiar kind of customer is served by a hidden apothecary shop in the depths of eighteenth-century London. Women in the city rumour that a strange woman by the name of Nella sells cunningly disguised poisons that they might use to get rid of the controlling males in their lives. But the apothecary's future is in jeopardy when her newest customer, a bright 12-year-old, makes a catastrophic error, setting off a chain of events that reverberate through the ages. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary?s in a stunning twist of fate?and not everyone will survive.