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title: "The Garden Against Time: The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller"
brand: "olivia laing"
price: "A$62"
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reviews_count: 12
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# The Garden Against Time: The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

**Brand:** olivia laing
**Price:** A$62
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Garden Against Time: The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by olivia laing
- **How much does it cost?** A$62 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Passionate and engaging look at gardens and gardening
  

*by W***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2024*

Laing and her husband moved into an old house once owned by a famous garden designer, Mark Rumary, but the garden had been neglected for years. The book is about her efforts to bring the garden, a third of an acre divided into different garden 'rooms',  back to life, beginning during the pandemic in 2020 and ending sometime after the heatwave and drought in 2022. I loved reading about her struggles – and her joy as she worked. I identify so much with her, being just four months into garden restoration myself and seeing my garden very much as consisting of separate areas or rooms. While I am looking at a wildlife garden, Laing is more concerned with planting, but everything we are both doing seemed to be for much the same reasons. I would have loved the book for this alone. However, this is not a book about one garden. Laing has researched the history of her garden and brought into the book a multitude of different garden themes, from the garden of Eden, through Paradise Lost, via John Clare and enclosure, aristocratic houses built on slavery and oppression of the poor to Derek Jarman and exclusion, London bomb sites, the German invasion of Italy and drought and privilege. Laing is coping with anxiety, not only about the state of the world, but also about family events and I could understand how the garden work can be both soothing and healing. I rarely finish a book and want to go straight back to the beginning and start again, but that's what I wanted to do with this book. Loved it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Like a lunchtime chat with a fascinating friend.
  

*by R***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2024*

Buckle up, you're in for quite a journey in this fabulous book. The people, the places, the stories... I learnt so much and enjoyed every moment of it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Beautifully written
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2024*

Beautifully written escapism

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