Two women with an interest in plants, one a perfumer and the other an illustrator, one the widow of an abusive husband and the other the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat, brought together by when the botanical garden at Edinburgh is shifted around the time of a royal visit. Both are fettered in different ways, both find their freedom too, in vastly different ways: one through marriage, the other through the sale of a 'love potion' though perhaps both find freedom by being true to themselves rather than to societal expectations.
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