Do you have it in you? The strength and desire to leave the place you call home, and travel five hundred miles north, to where the winters are long and the summers bring perpetual light?

With each traffic jam and each new industrial development, I feel a pull to a wilder, more rural life. I shrug the feeling aside, but Victoria Bennett chose change. With the years of early motherhood and elderly caregiving over, she uprooted to the northern Scottish islands of Orkney.

The Apothecary by the Sea charts her first year in Scotland, immersing the reader in this untamed and ancient landscape. ...

 

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