Arsenic for Tea is the Bookseller Book of the Month for February 2015

November 29, 2014

‘Did someone say bunbreak? Hazel and Daisy are back for a second Wells and Wong adventure, and I am delighted to report that they are on absolutely super form . . .

The books have been described as an Agatha Christie/Enid Blyton mash-up, and there is certainly a great sense of nostalgia and classic storytelling, penned with great affection by Stevens. But she also brings something very fresh, and sees the characters and their lives through thoroughly modern eyes.’

– Fiona Noble in The Bookseller, Friday 21st November 2014.

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