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Life in the garden /

by Lively, Penelope.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UK : Fig Tree, 2017Description: 199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780241319628 (hbk.) :; 0241319625 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 635.092 LIVSubject(s): Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Homes and haunts | Gardening | Gardens in literature | Gardening | GardeningSummary: 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.
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Includes index.

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.

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