The Apothecary by the Sea by Victoria Bennett

The Apothecary by the Sea by Victoria Bennett

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‘An enchanting story centred on the herbal delights of Orkney.’ James Canton, author of Renaturing 

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.

With 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

‘A beautiful haven of a book; richly nourishing, inspirational and full of hope.’ Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister

'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

VICTORIA BENNETT is a disabled, award-winning writer, poet, and literary activist whose work centres on nature, identity and creative resilience. Her debut memoir, All My Wild Mothers, won the Nautilus Award for Memoir, was shortlisted for multiple UK prizes and was named an Aladin ‘Best Book of the 21st Century’. Founder of Wild Women Press and the international Wild Women Writers’ Salons, Victoria lives in Orkney with her husband, artist Adam Clarke, and their son, where she tends her apothecary garden by the sea. http://victoriabennett.me/

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ISBN 13	9781783969340
ISBN 10	1783969342
Title	The Apothecary by the Sea
Author	Victoria Bennett
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Elliott & Thompson Limited
Year published	2026-04-30
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.