Plant Club
Mon, Dec 30
|Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants
Join us for this month's discussion with your host, Ami.
Time & Location
Dec 30, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy The Botanist's Daughter on Bookshop.org
Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . .
In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous sea voyage, unforeseen dangers and treachery that threatens her entire family.
In present-day Australia, Anna finds a mysterious metal box containing a sketchbook of dazzling watercolours, a photograph inscribed 'Spring 1886' and a small bag of seeds. It sets her on a path far from her safe, carefully ordered life, and on a journey that will force her to face her own demons.
In this spellbinding botanical odyssey of discovery, desire and deception, Kayte Nunn has so exquisitely researched nineteenth-century Cornwall and Chile you can almost smell the fragrance of the flowers, the touch of…