The Book Show #1317 - Elizbeth Gilbert

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published October 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM EDT

Elizabeth Gilbert - author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, returns to fiction with her first novel in 13-years.

The Signature of All Things is an epic story of desire, ambition and the thirst for knowledge spanning the 18th and 19th centuries – telling the birth to death story of botanist Alma Whittaker.

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