Tag: Irish botanist

• Book Review – A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee

  

  The fisherman sidled up to her on the quay. ‘You’re Miss Hutchins, the plant lady from Ballylickey.’ A Quiet Tide, the debut novel by Marianne Lee, takes us back in time to the early 1800s, immersing us in an intimate and compelling fictionalised account of the life of Ellen Hutchins, Ireland’s first female botanist.  After…

  RestingWillow

  July 9, 2021

  book review, books

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