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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
 
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...

Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.

Constable Gil Cunningham investigates the poisoning of an actor in a festive play, who was given drops by a fellow actor playing an apothecary, but when other deaths follow he begins to suspect a real-life apothecary of the crime.

"Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life-or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she's coping with a broken engagement...

Una historia olvidada. Una red secreta de mujeres. Un legado de veneno y venganza. Bienvenido al boticario perdido. Oculta en las profundidades del Londres del siglo XVIII, una botica secreta atiende a un tipo de clientela inusual. Las mujeres de toda la ciudad susurran sobre una figura misteriosa llamada Nella que vende venenos bien disfrazados para usarlos contra los hombres opresivos en sus vidas. El mundo oscuro de Nella no es lugar para su nueva...