![]() ![]() Elizabeth Day of The Guardian praised the complex characters, calling "Alma's journey a universal one, despite anchoring her protagonist's life in a different time and sending her to the furthest corners of the unexplored earth." Barbara Kingsolver of The New York Times labelled it "a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to uncommonly patient minds. The reception to the book has been positive. As Alma’s careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she starts a spiritual journey which spans the 19th Century. Gilberts bestselling memoir of her pilgrimage to Italy and India, Eat, Pray, Love: One Womans Search for Everything, followed her quest for wisdom after her divorce. The story follows Alma Whittaker, daughter of a botanical explorer, as she comes into her own within the world of plants and science. But Gilberts first love was fiction, to which she makes a triumphant return in her new historical novel, 'The Signature of All Things,' about the life and loves of Alma Whittaker, a. It was originally published in 2013 and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. ![]() UK film and TV production company Origin Pictures. ![]() The Signature of All Things is a novel by Elizabeth Gilbert. PBS’s Masterpiece producing public broadcasting channel Wgbh announced this morning it had optioned the novel The Signature Of All Things, written by Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert and inspired by the true-life adventures of real 19th century female botanical explorers. ![]()
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