A dual-timeline story of lost love, botanical discovery and a mysterious disappearance, following a London woman who becomes obsessed with the love letters of two botanists who traveled to Tibet in the early 20th century, by German bestselling author Corina Bomann.

DIE BOTANIKERIN
[The Botanis]
by Corina Bomann
Penguin Germany, May 2027

Photo credit: Nadja Klier

After Cleo was left at the altar by the love of her life, her days have been passing by without purpose. How on earth is she supposed to go on? Even her job at the historic London Lost and Found Office barely distracts her—until one day she opens an old suitcase and finds a Tibetan prayer flag along with some letters.

Out of curiosity, Cleo begins to read and is drawn into the story of Richard and Rosa—two botanists who traveled to Tibet at the beginning of the 20th century to research a rare species of rhododendron. Initially bitter rivals, their letters soon reveal a deep love. Until contact abruptly ceases.

Cleo can’t stop thinking about the love letters, and she wonders what dramatic end the relationship between Richard and Rosa met. She begins to research, delving into the history of the first female botanists, and has no idea that Richard and Rosa’s love will give her own life a new twist …

With sales totalling over two million copies, Corina Bomann‘s popular historical sagas are regular bestsellers, and her readers adore her strong women, passionate emotions and moving stories – such as her four-book Waldfriede saga set in a Berlin clinic, the two-part Rosenhag series set in Sweden, and now her new two-part Rosewell Castle series, which takes her readers into the fascinating world of butlerdom.