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Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide.
- Laurie Lee
- 1959
Cider with Rosie. Laurie Lee. 3.91. 13,872 ratings1,132 reviews. At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a world that is tangibly real and yet reminiscent of a now distant past.
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Apr 1, 2008 · Cider with Rosie is the classic memoir of growing up in a remote Gloucestershire village, a world that Laurie Lee makes tangibly real even as it’s now in a distant past. Abandoned by her husband, Laurie’s adoring mother becomes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own.
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- Laurie Lee
- Laurie Lee
- 1959
Jun 10, 2014 · Every midnight, on a forlorn stretch of heath, a phantom carriage reenacts its final, wild ride. And, best of all, the first secret sip of cider, “juice of those valleys and of that time,” leads to a boy’s first kiss, “so dry and shy, it was like two leaves colliding in air.”.
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- Laurie Lee
Cider With Rosie, autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee, published in 1959. An account of the author’s blissful childhood in an isolated village, the book was as instant classic, widely read in British schools.
- David Punter
Jun 28, 2020 · Read an extract from Cider With Rosie, a memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village in the last year of the First World War. The author describes his first day in the village, his sense of bewilderment and terror, and his family's joy in the bounty of the garden.
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Jun 10, 2014 · Cider with Rosie: A Memoir. This international-bestselling memoir of childhood in post–World War I rural England is one of the most “remarkable” portraits of youth in all literature...
