Life in the Garden - Hardcover

Lively, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241319625 ISBN 13: 9780241319628

Verlag: Fig Tree, 2017

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Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth. Moves between Lively's own horticultural life and a broad history of gardening (Alex Preston, Observer)

Exquisite and original (Daily Telegraph)

A gentle, scholarly progress through the lives and works of Penelope Lively's favoured authors - from Jane Austen to Beatrix Potter, Philip Larkin to Tom Stoppard (The Times)

Enchanting. Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guide through a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on to history, fashion, politics, reflections on time and the taming of nature (Tablet)

Lively finds memories of her own gardens scrambling like roses through insights into the history of gardening and the artists - including Woolf, Monet and PG Wodehouse - who have been inspired by their gardens (Daily Mail)

Delightful (Lady)

Elegant, entertaining and inspirational (Woman & Home)

The perfect book for dedicated garden lovers (S Magazine)

A blossoming triumph (Waterstones Newsletter)

Reseña del editor:

**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017**

'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, Observer

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.

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• Verlag: Fig Tree
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241319625
• ISBN 13: 9780241319628
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208