{"product_id":"9780241982181-life-in-the-garden","title":"Life in the Garden","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenelope 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 \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Exquisite and original' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Scholarly bedtime reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943266201697,"sku":"9780241982181","price":10.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32367614.jpg?v=1741220029","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241982181-life-in-the-garden","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}