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Wood, Maryrose.

The poison diaries / by Maryrose Wood ; based on a concept by the Duchess of Northumberland. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton’s apothecary garden.

ISBN 978-0-06-180236-2

[1. Human-plant relationships—Fiction. 2. Poisons—Fiction. 3. Medical care—Fiction. 4. Plants—Fiction. 5. Supernatural—Fiction. 6. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 7. Northumberland (England)—History—18th century—Fiction. 8. Great Britain—History—George III, 1760–1820—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.W8524Poi 2010

2009054427

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