It is about power

Og selvom man mærker en modvilje mod at blive læst biografisk

at den smukke og dyrtduftende mand i hættetrøje også skal drømme om hende

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

Hun glæder sig sindssygt meget til at sove i telt med vennerne

The Garden Against Time It is about powerWhen 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