Notes
1. For a study of paradisiacal gardens, see Melanie A. Murray, Island Paradise: The Myth: An Examination of Contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan Writing. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009.
2. Lively’s work is also discussed within a postcolonial context, but with a different emphasis, in Huw Marsh, “Unlearning Empire: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger”. End of Empire and the English Novel Since 1945. Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwartz. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 152–66.