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**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**

***A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM***

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'Stunning' - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN

'Warm and wise' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer

'Glamorous, sexy, compelling' - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times

'I fell in love with Vivian from page one' - Daisy Buchanan

'An education in love, and an iridescent delight' - Rowan Pelling, Spectator

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New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and ...

An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right. But as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into the mysteri...