{"product_id":"9780241982181","title":"Life in the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lively, Penelope \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/06\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 208 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241982181,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review  'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth' Observer'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph 'A gentle survey of the garden's place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived' i 'Scholarly bedtime reading' The Times, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697641062444,"sku":"9780241982181","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241982181.jpg?v=1722597682","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241982181","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}