The Laskett - Roy Strong - Paperback

_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 LIFEThis is the story of a garden. It is also the portrait of a marriage expressed through the vision and mystery of creating this garden. Neither the author, Roy Strong, nor his wife, the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, had foreseen this when they eloped in 1971.Over thirty years later they found themselves surrounded by the largest formal garden created in this country since 1945. But it is not just the horticultural triumph that will grip the reader as what this garden came to mean in the lives of its creators.Into the Laskett they etched their own biographies, including many of the people who have crossed their lives and are commemorated within it. That galaxy embraces not only garden icons such as Rosemary Verey and Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, but figures as varied as the photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, the painter John Piper and the fashion designer Jean Muir.The Laskett is the unique story of a great love affair; a haunting and human tale of a garden as the domain of ghosts and 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.Strong, Roy is the author of 'The Laskett - Roy Strong - Paperback' with ISBN 9780553815191 and ISBN 0553815199.