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This is the story of one man and a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating a garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped and married in 1971. ver thirty years later they find themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden made in this country since 1945, a garden that has increasingly become recognized as one of the most important laid out in the second half of the twentieth century. And yet it was created not only with little money and less labour, but quite unconsciously. But it is not so much the horticultural triumph that will grip the reader as what this garden on the Welsh Borders in Herefordshire has come to mean in the lives of its creators. HE LASKETT is a haunting and human tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and as the habitat of memory. Within its confines can be found both joy and happiness as well as the tears of tragedy. No one who reads this book will put it down unmoved.

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A funny, touching and charming book - as much a portrait of a marriage as a garden - full of delightful pen portraits of people and places' THE TIMES; 'The tale of a garden...a paradise of love and hope...so steeped in the memories of its creators that it reads like an autobiography' COUNTRY LIFE

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Sir Roy Strong is well-known as an historian and garden writer, lecturer, critic, columnist and regular contributor to both radio and television. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967-73 and of the V&A from 1974-87. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK. He has published a number of highly acclaimed books and his recent publications include THE STORY OF BRITAIN, THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN, A COUNTRY LIFE, FEAST, CORONATION, THE LASKETT and his own diaries. He lives in Herefordshire.

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