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Olivia Laing is such an accomplished writer - I love the way she so cleverly draws so many different threads together. In this book, she takes us through the creation of a wonderful garden over the space of a few years and her descriptions of the seasons and plant life are just beautiful. Along the way she touches on colonisation, slavery and plantation money and the wealthy families and soulless gardens that came from it, Derek Jarman and his garden of course is discussed, as well as a climate change- all of it wonderfully interwoven. I don’t think I felt as connected to this book as Lonely City and Everybody but still a pleasurable read.