Life in the Garden
- Authors
- Lively, Penelope
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Tags
- gardening
- ISBN
- 9780241319628
- Date
- 2017-11-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 12.14 MB
- Lang
- en
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.
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.