The Garden Against Time
02 May 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way.' – Nigel Slater
‘A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls, but like every garden it was...
Details
02 May 2024336 pages
9781529066678Imprint: Picador
Reviews
What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the wayNigel Slater
A sharp and enthralling memoir of the garden’s contradiction: dream and reality, life and death, the fascination of cultivation and the political horrors that it can disguiseNeil Tennant
Laing probes important questions about land ownership and exclusion and the human drive to create paradise on earth. All the while, her elegant prose bewitches and beguiles. A truly wonderful readSue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind
No one writes with more energy and ecstasy than Olivia Laing. This book is what we need right now: paradise, regainedPhilip Hoare
