The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing howard And what - or who

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It is an exploration of the narrow spaces between real life and fiction and

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant new reality

The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing howard And what - or whoIn 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 Miltons Paradise Lost to John Clares enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost