# Life in the Garden

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- Book: [Life in the Garden](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively/life-in-the-garden) ([Life in the Garden.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively/life-in-the-garden.md))
- Authors: [Penelope Lively](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-lively)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-217-4
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.