TY - BOOK AU - Lively,Penelope TI - Life in the garden SN - 9780241319628 (hbk.) : AV - SB455 U1 - 635.092 LIV 23 PY - 2017/// CY - UK PB - Fig Tree KW - Lively, Penelope, KW - Gardening KW - Gardens in literature KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Includes index N2 - 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 ER -