Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Laurie Lee Mbe Mbe
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099285663
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EAN: 9780099285663
Published: 1 Nov 2007
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.
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It has got a marvellous morning freshness. There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling
- Daily Mail
Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory
- Sunday Times
One of the great writers of the twentieth century
- Independent
An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished
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He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision
- Guardian
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'.
