Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
A #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller
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Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there’s still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s
Product details
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (June 25, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0393882004
ISBN-13 : 978-0393882001
Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
Dimensions : 5.9 x 1.2 x 8.6 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #26,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#3 in Gardening & Horticulture Essays (Books)
#13 in Environmentalist & Naturalist Biographies
#841 in Memoirs (Books)
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