{"product_id":"9781529066708","title":"The Garden Against Time","description":"Author: Olivia Laing\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529066708\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Feb 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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 interconnected, wide open to the world . . .’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nBut the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798801109150,"sku":"TLD-9781529066708","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529066708.jpg?v=1778119441","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529066708","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}