Life in the Garden - Couverture rigide

Lively, Penelope

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241319625 ISBN 13 : 9780241319628

Editeur : Fig Tree, 2017

Synopsis

**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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her childhood there. She came to England at the age of twelve, in 1945, and went to boarding school in Sussex. She went on to read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1957 she married Jack Lively (who died in 1998). They had two children, Josephine and Adam. Jack Lively's academic career took the family from Swansea to Sussex and Oxford, and eventually to Warwick University, where he was Professor of Politics. Penelope Lively now has six grandchildren and lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fig Tree
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241319625
• ISBN 13: 9780241319628
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible