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 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.
- Author
- Penelope Lively
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-31962-8
- EAN
- 9780241319628
- Genres
- gardening, memoir, nature, essays, biography
- Release date
- 2017
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