Gabrielle Hatfield is a distinguished historian of plant medicine. She studied botany at Cambridge, then a PhD at Edinburgh in plant medicine. The winner of two literary prizes (Michaelis-Jean Ratcliff Prize and the John Thackray Medal), she is currently a research associate at Kew, and a member of the council of management of Ethnomedica. Married to a GP, she has four children, several sheep, a herd of geese, a Shetland pony and a peacock, all of whom have benefited from her herbal remedies. She lives in Norfolk. Her latest book is Hatfield's Herbal (2007).
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