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Life in the Garden

Penelope Lively

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today.
It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fig Tree

Release: November 02, 2017

ISBN: 0241319625

ISBN 13: 9780241319628

Life in the Garden

Penelope Lively

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today.
It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Fig Tree

Release: November 02, 2017

ISBN: 0241319625

ISBN 13: 9780241319628

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