The Pharmacist: The most gripping and unforgettable debut

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It's really hard to watch someone dealing with fractured memories. Alice wakes up wondering where her husband is. All his things are gone. Has he left her? There are shades of George Orwell in this stunning writing debut, but Rachelle Atalla’s voice is highly original. And wholly her own.

If you want to buy an over-the-counter medicine, the pharmacist and their team can help you choose. I would have liked to have known who chose the people who got the privilege of entering the bunker. No babies and no old people. And yet, there are the usual number of useless politicians and unnecessary soldiers.I liked the idea of the role-playing that went on within the bunker. Very clever and passed the time for what for some must have been arduous indeed.

Dystopian thriller

Pharmacies can give treatment advice about a range of common conditions and minor injuries, such as: Though set in a speculative future, The Pharmacist is very much a book for our own broken times. Its story grips and never lets go, unflinching in its portrayal of abused power, moral confusion and betrayal, but also fully alive to the redemptive possibilities of compassion, resistance and love. This is a powerful and memorable debut from an exciting new voice’ WAYNE PRICE The latter half of the documentary reveals how Schneider collaborated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), as well as local authorities to discredit Dr. Cleggett. Eventually, Purdue Pharma, the group behind the invention of OxyContin — one of the most addictive painkillers in the United States — was sued by multiple states for its role in the nation's burgeoning opioid crisis. The documentary concludes after highlighting that Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in 2019. The incredible twist no one saw coming

I think that underpins all my writing — from short stories to screenwriting and the novel.” Dystopian thrillerAtalla’s speculative literary thriller debut draws you in with its mounting sense of tension, disquiet and desperation’ CULTUREFLY Netflix's The Pharmacist tells the true story of Dan Schneider and his intense journey to stop drug abuse in the United States.

The story begins as Schneider, a Louisiana-based pharmacist, solves the murder of his son, discovering a major twist in the process. This horrendously claustrophobic, utterly absorbing debut. The fiercely controlled narrative beautifully translates the horrendous grip of dismal routines and tiny, stolen pleasures’ DAILY MAILdecide each time you're given a prescription where to collect it – you'll be given a paper copy with a barcode to take to any pharmacy in England, or the pharmacy can find your prescription using your NHS number It all begins when Schneider's son is murdered in the late 1990s while attempting to secure drugs. As the police embark on a long and complicated investigation, Schneider starts to notice how many prescriptions for opioids are being abused in his town, which eventually leads to a takedown of "big pharma." The murder that started it all The action opens with a man lying on the concrete floor of a recreation room. As Stirling, one of the bunker’s doctors, tries to help the man, Wolfe asks a couple of kids what happened. He has swallowed all the plastic Monopoly houses, she is told by one boy. And the hotels, a girl adds. This had an interesting premise, similar in some ways to the brilliant Wool trilogy, let down by the unpleasantness of reading text devoid of quotation marks and paragraph breaks - it’s unclear how much of this is ARC formatting and how much was a deliberate style choice, but if the latter, it doesn’t work and will put off many readers who don’t appreciate having to read sentences multiple times to work out what’s dialogue, versus Wolfe’s inner monologue - or even who is speaking.