Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.
Material type: TextPublisher: [London] : Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017Description: 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780241319628
- 0241319625
- PN56.G3 L58 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB455 .L58 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800167173 |
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.