The Poison Diaries, Maryrose Wood
The Poison Diaries, Maryrose Wood
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The Poison Diaries

Author: Maryrose Wood

Narrator: Violet Mathieson

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 07/20/2010

Synopsis

In the right dose, everything is a poison. Even love . . .Jessamine Luxton has lived all her sixteen years in an isolated cottage near Alnwick Castle, with little company apart from the plants in her garden. Her father, Thomas, a feared and respected apothecary, has taught her much about the incredible powers of plants: that even the most innocent-looking weed can cure -- or kill.When Jessamine begins to fall in love with a mysterious boy who claims to communicate with plants, she is drawn into the dangerous world of the poison garden in a way she never could have imagined . . .

About Maryrose Wood

Maryrose Wood is the author of the first five books (so far!) in this series about the Incorrigible children and their governess. These books may be considered works of fiction, which is to say, the true bits and the untrue bits are so thoroughly mixed together that no one should be able to tell the difference. This process of fabrication is fully permitted under the terms of the author's Poetic License, which is one of her most prized possessions.Maryrose's other qualifications for writing these tales include a scandalous stint as a professional thespian, many years as a private governess to two curious and occasionally rambunctious pupils, and whatever literary insights she may have gleaned from living in close proximity to a clever but disobedient dog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristy on November 01, 2010

First off, I have to say I thouroughly enjoyed this. This book did it's job, it kept me entertained. Was it mindblowing? No Was it Fun? Yes Do I think you should read it? Yes (if you like Young Adult books) Imagine you can hear voices, voices of Plants. Daisies, Lilies, Trees, Grass, Potato Plants........more

Goodreads review by Anne on May 27, 2015

The Poison Diaries was different enough to hold my attention, but I not sure that it would be everyone's cuppa. Jessimine is a young woman living a pretty isolated life with her botanist/apothecary father in (from what I could gather) the late 1700's. Her father is obsessed with finding cures made fr......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 04, 2010

Sixteen-year-old Jessamine lives with her father, an apothecary, in an abandoned church she calls "the cottage". Her father's obsession is a forbidden garden where he keeps deadly and poisonous plants from around the world. Jessamine lives a boring life- taking care of her father and the plants, wri......more

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