The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love was a self-indulgent bit of fluff. In this book, she’s more disciplined and makes a good attempt at building a terrific character, Alma, a botanist who rivals Charles Darwin in developing a theory of evolution. However I do wish the editor had been a bit harsher with the blue pencil – far too long, far too wordy and lots of extraneous waffle.