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As her new book The Garden Against Time is published, Olivia Laing talks about notions of paradise, her love of Derek Jarman, and envisioning the garden as a political space
While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind