der giver håb til menneskeheden om

håbefulde bønders ildhu og frustrationer

with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion

en voksende intergalaktisk civilisation

Og selvom man mærker en modvilje mod at blive læst biografisk

The Garden Against Time der giver håb til menneskehedenWhen Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between the real and the imagined, from Miltons Paradise Lost to a wartime sanctuary in Italy, to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the