Holdfast by Annette Skade Eoghan Walls “Gaspar Orozco’s extraordinary Book of

“Gaspar Orozco’s extraordinary Book of the Peony blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness

Thomas Mann

I loved every minute of it

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Holdfast by Annette Skade Eoghan Walls “Gaspar Orozco’s extraordinary Book ofConfined by lockdown to her home in Bantry Bay and witnessing its changing face in a time of environmental degradation, Annette Skade began to comb the landscape and archives of her locality in search of connection to the life of one of its most famous residents: nineteenth century botanist Ellen Hutchins, who collected hundreds of seaweeds, lichens, mosses and liverworts and discovered several new species in the course of a short life spent tied to