a favorite passage from The Bancroft Strategy of Robert Ludlum

They ended up walking together down a slate path behind the house, descending down several terraced gardens and across a small wooden bridge across a stream, and then through a maze of privet hedges.

"It's like another world over here," Andrea said. "Plunked down in the middle of another one. Like a restaurant on the moon."

"Oh, that place. Great food but no atmosphere." (92)

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privet - type of bush with small leaves that stay green the whole year round.

(from Collins Advanced Learner's English Dictionary)