Life in the Garden
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This...
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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.
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- Pages:199 pages
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- Edition:1st, First Edition
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0241319625
- ISBN13:9780241319628
- kindle Asin:B076GR83BF