![]() ![]() I’d never heard of “mudlarking” before your book, but I love that it serves as the inspiration for the novel and the connection between your two timeframes. I talked to Sarah about forging a connection with the past, what makes Georgian London special, and writing feminist historical fiction. The talented Penner bursts onto the historical fiction scene with a dual-timeframe novel that follows three fascinating women: an apothecary who only allows her poisons to be used to kill misbehaving men, a clever girl whose curiosity about the apothecary leads her to quickly get in over her head, and the modern-day woman whose discovery of an 18th-century apothecary vial spurs her to investigate the unknown as a distraction from her crumbling marriage. It’s been named among the most anticipated books of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine,, Bustle, and many, many more. ![]() ![]() Right now, that buzz belongs to Sarah Penner and her inventive, compelling historical novel, The Lost Apothecary. But the luckiest debut novelists see buzz building for their books well in advance of publication. ![]() Releasing a debut novel is always a fraught endeavor, and in a pandemic, it’s even more so. ![]()
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