The New York Times bestseller Elizabeth Gilbert’s first novel in twelve years. An extraordinary story of botany, exploration and desire, spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Elizabeth Gilbert is the acclaimed author of five books of fiction and non-fiction. She is most well known for her 2006 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. Her short story collection Pilgrims was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, her novel Stern Men was a New York Times Notable Book and The Last American Man was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent work, Committed, was a Number One New York Times bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com Find Elizabeth Gilbert on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @GilbertLiz
Unlike anything else she has ever written ... Its prose has the
elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns – the
intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for
fulfilment – are especially modern
*International Herald Tribune*
The story of Alma Whittaker’s journey of discovery has irresistible
momentum
* The Times*
Ms Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who
dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel
stands as a winning next act ... A bracing homage to the many
natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world
that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds
*International Herald Tribune*
Charming and compelling ... A big novel in all senses – extensively
researched, compellingly readable and with a powerful charm that
will surely propel it towards the bestseller lists
* Daily Telegraph*
Gilbert has written the novel of a lifetime
* O, The Oprah Magazine*
Sumptuous ... Gilbert's prose is by turns flinty, funny, and
incandescent
* New Yorker *
Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years ... a
bejewelled, dazzling novel
* Observer *
Readers prepared to enter Gilbert Time will be rewarded: she is an
unflaggingly curious writer, prone to delightful touches ...
Gilbert's period interests seem boundless - she explores everything
from self-sacrifice, to homosexuality, Darwinism and Victorian
pornography ... This is a novel to be chewed over, slowly
* Sunday Times*
A botanical odyssey through the nineteenth century, global in
ambition, revelling in the period's insatiable curiosity about the
world ... a tall tale, told with verve and wit
* Guardian *
Filled with dazzling storytelling
* Financial Times *
Gilbert writes superbly well
*Daily Mail*
An intricate, beautifully written historical novel ... A passionate
paean to the 19th-century women of science who strove for
achievement against the odds
*Metro*
Gilbert’s observations, of both characters and locations, make this
an unexpected joy and in Alma she has created a truly unforgettable
heroine
*Irish Examiner*
Astute and funny ... comes with generous helpings of optimism and
romance. Cynics need not apply
*Irish Sunday Mirror*
Ambitious, boldly imagined and packed with authenticating detail,
it engages very boldly with the interaction of art and science
*Andrew Motion, Guardian*
Gilbert reminds readers she can do, and undo, narratives through
impeccably observed and original stories
*Independent*
Gilbert shows herself to be a writer at the height of her
powers
*O Magazine*
Magnificent ... I was just a few pages into the book when I felt
myself relax, aware that I was in the safe hands of a master
story-teller
*The Irish Times*
My own 500-pager of choice? Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of
All Things ... just read it ... Hugely enjoyable
* Observer Books of the Year*
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