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The Garden Against Time

by Olivia Laing

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Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology

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Writer Olivia Laing interweaves her own attempts to restore a walled garden in Suffolk with an investigation into the long history of gardens — real and imagined, follies and pleasure grounds — and humanity's efforts to create paradise on earth.

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