{"product_id":"life-in-the-garden-9780241982181","title":"Life in the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the azaleas at Manderlay to the ordered vegetable plots of Mr Mcgregor's garden, read Penelope Lively's recommendations of the best gardens in literature .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Penelope Lively\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: general, Memoirs, Gardens (descriptions, history etc)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 Jun 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penelope Lively","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320713453946,"sku":"9780241982181","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780241982181.jpg?v=1790660157","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/life-in-the-garden-9780241982181","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}