The Apothecary By The Sea — cover

New book — out now

The Apothecary
By The Sea

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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The Apothecary By The Sea
Book of the Month  ·  Gutter Magazine

Out now  ·  Elliott & Thompson

The Apothecary
By The Sea

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

As featured in

The Guardian · Gutter Magazine · Country Life · Scottish Field · The Sunday Post

'A beautifully written paean to the healing powers of nature and an ode to the brutal climate of Orkney'

Scottish Field

Writer, poet,
wild gardener

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.


Full biography
Victoria Bennett
All My Wild Mothers

All My Wild Mothers

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.

  • Silver Nautilus Book Award 2024  ·  Memoir
  • Shortlisted  ·  Lakeland Book of the Year 2024
  • Shortlisted  ·  People's Book Prize 2024
  • Amazon #1 Bestseller  ·  Wildlife Gardens
  • Winner  ·  Northern Debut Award 2020
들풀의 구원 — Korean edition

Also available in Korean

들풀의 구원

Korean edition · Translated by Myeong Nam Kim
Published by Woongjin Knowledge House, South Korea

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