Life in the garden /
"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...
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Published: |
Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books,
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Publisher Address: | [London] : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
"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. |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
ISBN: |
9780241319628 (hardcover) : 0241319625 (hardcover) |
Index Number: | PN56 |
CLC: |
I561.65 S6 |
Call Number: | S6/L784 |