{"product_id":"the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-1","title":"The Garden Against Time : In Search Of A Common Paradise","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 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 Milton’s 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the story of the garden can also be a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams, from the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the vision of a common Eden cultivated by William Morris. New modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of radical change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ePublished: 2025, UK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ePublisher: Picador\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ePages: 336\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e9781529066708\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Olivia Laing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57074268209483,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781529066708_dcb122fc-cf36-4144-ac86-412ff1742fdf.jpg?v=1776693328","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-1","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}