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Club Review
In Julie Klassen's The Apothecary’s Daughter, Lilly Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure than their small village promises to give her. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, which her father refuses to discuss.
Opportunity for escape comes when an aunt offers to educate Lilly as a lady in London. Exposed to fashionable society and romance, as well as clues about her mother, Lilly is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father’s bedside. Women are forbidden to work as apothecaries, so Lilly will have to make it appear as if her father is making all the decisions.
But a competing apothecary is watching her—and three men are competing for Lilly’s heart.
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