{"product_id":"life-in-the-garden","title":"Life In The Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight'' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers'' \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Exquisite and original'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''A gentle survey of the garden''s place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Scholarly bedtime reading'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319263928702,"sku":"NW9780241982181","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241982181.jpg?v=1778636896","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/life-in-the-garden","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}