Life in the Garden
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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, fromParadise LosttoAlice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.words : 51676
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Lively
Penelope - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241319628
- Release date
- 2017
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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 par...