*From the award-winning author of All My Wild Mothers: a lyrical, tender story of creating a wild apothecary garden on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney. With the years of early motherhood and elderly caregiving over, Victoria faces a time of change. She and her family decide to take a leap, moving five hundred miles north to the northern Scottish islands of Orkney, where winters are long and summer bathes the landscape in perpetual light. Uprooted and in an unfamiliar landscape, Victoria instinctively returns to the work of growing, transforming her scrappy backyard into an abundant apothecary garden by the sea. Inspired by Orkney's folklore, ancient landscapes and wild nature, she creates a biodiverse sanctuary shaped by tides, storms, wild plants and seaweeds—filled with micro-habitats, wildflowers and herbs. Here she crafts teas, tinctures and balms drawn from the surrounding soil and seas. As the year closes and endless summer light turns to dark, Victoria finds belonging in both the garden she has nurtured and the landscape that has quietly embraced her. At the wild edge of things, she reclaims parts of herself long set aside. 'An impossibly moving memoir of gardens, herbalism, and the rigours and rewards of care… An exciting new voice in nature writing' Cal Flyn on All My Wild Mothers