{"id":22210,"date":"2023-09-15T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22210"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T21:20:04","slug":"a-botanists-guide-to-parties-and-poisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22210","title":{"rendered":"A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons<\/em> (2022) Kate Khavari (Saffron Everleigh)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in England in 1923<\/p>\n

Saffron Everleigh a research assistant in University College London, and very few people believe she earned and deserved her degree and position (Because: 1923). Safforn feels she owes everything to her mentor, Dr Maxwell, so when a woman is poisoned at a party, and Dr Maxwell becomes a suspect, Saffron is determined to do everything she can to prove him innocent.<\/p>\n

She gets unwilling help from a bacteriologist, who has his own ghosts to deal with.<\/p>\n

Alexander couldn\u2019t help but arch a brow at that. More often than not, rain took him back to a dark, muddy trench.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do think this is an interesting time period.<\/p>\n

Coming of age during the Great War and immediately after, the false hope and positivity that came with the end of the War left a bitter taste in her mouth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One that seemed to be quite different in the US than in England–but the US had prohibition, and that made everything worse.<\/p>\n

One thing that bugged me: <\/p>\n

they crawled back to the gate through the bushes, catching more rhododendron thorns as they went.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is wrong on multiple levels.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books<\/p>\n

Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Safforn feels she owes everything to her mentor, Dr Maxwell, so when a woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,190,292,48,204,33,8],"tags":[546],"class_list":["post-22210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-female","category-good","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-interwar-period"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Me","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20854,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20854","url_meta":{"origin":22210,"position":0},"title":"A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie","author":"Michelle","date":"October 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie (2015) Kathryn Harkup Agatha Christie volunteered as a nurse during the first world war, and ended up working at the pharmacy. 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