{"id":90953,"date":"2018-06-08T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/life-in-the-garden-by-penelope-lively-review-a-rewarding-evocative-ramble\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:03:33","slug":"life-in-the-garden-by-penelope-lively-review-a-rewarding-evocative-ramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/life-in-the-garden-by-penelope-lively-review-a-rewarding-evocative-ramble\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively review \u2013 a rewarding, evocative ramble"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn this vivid meditation, the novelist traces her love of gardens from childhood in Egypt to London and through art and literaturePenelope Lively modestly admits she is \u201conly the most amateur gardener\u201d. And yet this delightful and very personal paean to gardens amply demonstrates her abiding love of\u00a0tending them.From the hot, sunny garden in Egypt where she grew up and discovered the joys of reading amid bamboo groves and lily ponds, to the small London one in her ninth decade and with a chronic back problem, gardens have always played a \u201cformative and essential\u201d role in her life. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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