Life In The Garden
2017 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.
