{"product_id":"life-in-the-garden-penelope-lively","title":"Life in the Garden - Penelope Lively","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55600627614076,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/LITG-PL-01.jpg?v=1754128300","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/life-in-the-garden-penelope-lively","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}