The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing games As the chaos grows

As the chaos grows

Wonderful' Guardian 'Fascinating

It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments - and lifetimes - of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us

Hardie GrantISBN: 9781784886806Extent: 192 pages

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing games As the chaos growsIn 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