The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing howard Food Editor of House &

Food Editor of House & Garden

And what - or who - is she willing to leave behind

withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary'Fabulously entertaining

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland

and intriguing to the last page' LIZ NUGENT 'I was obsessed by it

The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing howard Food Editor of House &In 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