Life in the Garden
Author(s): Penelope Lively
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**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017** 'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, Observer 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.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.149
- : 31 May 2018
- : 1.6 X 12.8
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Penelope Lively
- : Paperback
- : 1806
- : English
- : 809/.93364
- : 208
- : BM