Nature and nurture collide in bitter frontier family saga
At the Edge of the Orchard; By Tracy Chevalier; Borough Press, €17.25
You wait all your life for a book about plant collecting and then two come along at once – well, almost at once. It’s actually two years since the publication of Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, an exhilarating look at the life of a fictional 19th century American female botanist that somehow managed to make the study of moss fascinating.
But I couldn’t help thinking of it when reading Tracy Chevalier’s ...
