The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

by Olivia Laing

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th 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 Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882004
• ISBN13: 9780393882001
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages