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    Life in the Garden
    Life in the Garden
    Life in the Garden
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    Life in the Garden

    Written by Penelope Lively

    Narrated by Helen Lloyd

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    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's also a wise, engaging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 2, 2017
    ISBN9781510092006
    Life in the Garden
    Author

    Penelope Lively

    Penelope Lively is a novelist, short story writer and author of children's books. Her novels have won several literary awards including the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger in 1987, the Carnegie Medal for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe in 1973, and the Whitbread Award for A Stitch in Time in 1976.

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