The signature of all things

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 read more 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 mysteries of evolution the man she comes love draws her in the opposite direction into the realm of the spiritual the divine and the magical. The signature of all things soars across the globe of the nineteenth century from london and peru philadelphia tahiti and beyond peopled with extraordinary characters along the way most of all it has an unforgettable heroine in alma whittaker.