Life in the Garden
Subtitle: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017
Publisher: Fig Tree; Penquin
Published: Jul 16, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780241319628
Description: "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"--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Life in the Garden: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017