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

It is about power

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

en voksende intergalaktisk civilisation

håbefulde bønders ildhu og frustrationer

The Garden Against Time with his neighbour – aWhen 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