{"product_id":"used-life-in-the-garden","title":"Used - Life In The Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish date - 2017 - used hardcover","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53279326830902,"sku":null,"price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-3417.heic?v=1763491506","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-life-in-the-garden","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}