Life in the garden
Lively, Penelope, 1933-2017
Book
Total copies: 1
From the Booker Prize author of }Moon Tiger{, comes a beautiful memoir of her life in gardens, together with an exploration of gardens in literature. **A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017**'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, ObserverPenelope 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.
Main title:
Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.
Author:
Lively, Penelope, 1933-, author
Work:
Imprint:
UK : Fig Tree, 2017.
Collation:
199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241319628 (hbk)9780241982174 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
635.092635.092 LIV
LC class:
SB455
Language:
English
Subject:
Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Homes and hauntsGardeningGardens in literatureGardeningGardeningAutobiography: generalMemoirsLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Gardens (descriptions, history etc)Biography: science, technology & medicineLiterature: history & criticismNature & the natural world: general interest
BRN:
371468