Life in the Garden

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A memoir of the author's life in gardens, and an exploration of gardens in literature

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241982181
Published: June 2018

Number of pages: 208
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 13 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd