{"product_id":"9781783969340","title":"The Apothecary by the Sea : A Year in an Orkney Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bennett, Victoria \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/04\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781783969340,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*From the award-winning author of All My Wild Mothers: a lyrical, tender story of creating a wild apothecary garden on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the years of early motherhood and elderly caregiving over, Victoria faces a time of change. She and her family decide to take a leap, moving five hundred miles north of everything they know to the northern Scottish islands of Orkney, where the winters are long and the summer a perpetual light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Uprooted and in an unfamiliar landscape, Victoria instinctively returns to the work of growing, setting out to transform her scrappy backyard into an abundant apothecary garden by the sea, inspired by Orkney’s folklore, ancient landscapes and wild nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shaped by tides and storms, wild plants and seaweeds, she creates a biodiverse backyard sanctuary filled with micro-habitats, wildflowers and herbs. Here, in her apothecary by the sea, she crafts teas, tinctures and balms inspired by the surrounding soil and seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the year closes and the endless summer light turns once more to dark, Victoria finds belonging not only in the garden she has nurtured, but in the landscape that has quietly embraced her and called itself home. Here, at the wild edge of things, she is reclaiming parts of herself long set aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An impossibly moving memoir of gardens, herbalism, and the rigours and rewards of care… An exciting new voice in nature writing' Cal Flyn on All My Wild Mothers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56670079189365,"sku":"9781783969340","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781783969340.jpg?v=1769592833","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9781783969340","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}