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Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.

by Lively, Penelope, 1933-

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Lively, Penelope, 1933-

Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Knowledge -- Gardening.

Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

Gardens in literature.

9780525558378 (hc.)

198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Reality and metaphor -- The written garden -- The fashionable garden -- Time, order and the garden -- Style and the garden -- Town and country.

"From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life. Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom."--From publisher.

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