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Emily Zobel Marshall spent her childhood in a remote village in the mountains of Snowdonia in northern Wales with her Black Caribbean mother and white English father. Bath of Herbs is a beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered,’ unmappable positionality. Linking the whole is an engagement with the possibilities of healing, as in the bath of herbs in which her grandmother bathed her mother after giving birth, in the physicality of running and purificatory swimming in a river, in the care a hospital gives to her child and in the healing power of the natural world.