Life in the garden [sound recording] /
by Lively, Penelope [author.]; Lloyd, Helen (Actress) [narrator.].
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SoundPublisher: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2017Description: 5 CDs (330 min.) : digital, stereo.ISBN: 9781510084148 (CDs) :.Classification number: 635.092 LIVSubject(s): Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Homes and haunts | Gardening | Gardens in literature | Audiobooks | GardeningNarrated by Helen Lloyd.Summary: 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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Spoken Word CD - Adult
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Formby Library | Spoken word Adult non-fiction | 635.092 LIV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002994391X |
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.
Narrated by Helen Lloyd.
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