New book — out now
A year in an Orkney garden
From the award-winning author of All My Wild Mothers — a lyrical, tender memoir of midlife change and the quiet, necessary work of tending what grows wild.
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Out now · Elliott & Thompson
A year in an Orkney garden · Victoria Bennett
Leaving behind years of caregiving, Victoria Bennett moves north to Orkney where she begins again with a garden, steadily transforming a small, weather-beaten backyard plot into a wild apothecary shaped by the island's tides, plants, and seasons.
As she tends the soil, she traces the histories carried within it and within herself, finding new ways of living, making, and belonging. At once intimate and expansive, this is a book that asks us to pay attention — to the land, to our bodies, and to the small, necessary acts of care that make a life.
'…a gift for times of transition, it is a companion for those navigating thresholds in
life, when old maps no longer serve and new ways of being are quietly forming…'
JC Niala, author of The New Eden
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'A beautifully written paean to the healing powers of nature and an ode to the brutal climate of Orkney'
Scottish Field
About Victoria
Victoria Bennett is a writer, poet, and creative producer based in Orkney. Her debut memoir All My Wild Mothers won the Silver Nautilus Book Award 2024 and was shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year and the People's Book Prize.
She founded Wild Women Press in 1999 and has spent two decades writing about nature, motherhood, grief, and the transformative power of wild spaces and forgotten plants.
Also by Victoria Bennett
Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden
An intimate weaving of memoir and herbal folklore — a story of re-wilding our wastelands, and the transformation that happens when we do.
Also available in Korean
들풀의 구원
Korean edition · Translated by Myeong Nam Kim
Published by Woongjin Knowledge House, South Korea