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All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden

Victoria Bennett

The Book Publicist team were delighted to work with Victoria Bennett to promote her stunning memoir, All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, Loss and an Apothecary Garden (Hodder & Stoughton). As experts in working with authors to share their first-person stories, memoirs and wellbeing books we created numerous opportunities for high-profile national media coverage.

Our Approach

We collaborated with Victoria and her publisher to create a tailored PR campaign to share her heartfelt story and experiences. We created bespoke pitches designed to appeal to a diverse audience, including women's lifestyle, wellness, gardening, and nature publications.

Media Highlights

Our efforts resulted in a wide range of media coverage during this book PR campaign, and we secured some beautiful and heartfelt features across the media on the topic of grief and nature.

We were delighted to secure an article for Victoria with Women's Health (14million visits a month) in which she shared her story as part of its grief series.

Vic was also published on national newspaper platform iNews (6million visits a month) with an emotional and moving first person article on how her garden saved her after the death of her sister.

Women’s favourite Yours magazine (print circ 127K) also put together an impactful feature for its print magazine with Victoria sharing the power of her garden as she navigated grief.

We also secured a fantastic opportunity for Victoria on global platform HuffPost (2.5million visits a month) organising for her to write a first-person piece on grief in its parenting section.

Our PR campaign resulted in comprehensive media coverage across the national media giving brilliant exposure for Victoria and her book All My Wild Mothers.

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All My Wild Mothers
by Victoria Bennett

Weaving of memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of motherhood, grief and the transformation that can happen when we reconnect with the wild beneath our feet. In a time of uncertainty, it has something to teach us about resilience, love, and the power of joyful resistance.

At seven months pregnant, Victoria Bennett learns that her sister has died in a canoeing accident. In that moment, her life changes.

Five years later, and struggling with the demands of motherhood, grief and full-time care, Victoria and her family move to a new social housing estate in rural Cumbria. Here, in the rubble of a former industrial site, she and her young son begin to grow a wild apothecary garden: daisy, for resilience; dandelion, for strength against adversity; sow thistle, to lift melancholy; and borage, to bring hope in dark and difficult times.

Stone by stone, seed by seed, they discover that sometimes life grows, not in spite of what is broken, but because of it. All My Wild Mothers is an intimate memoir of motherhood, a handbook on survival and a testimony to radical hope.

Campaign Highlights


  • Women's Health
  • iNews
  • HuffPost
  • Belfast Telegraph
  • Pick Me Up!
  • Yours
  • Reader's Digest
  • Welldoing.org
  • Kitchen Garden
  • BBC Regional radio

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