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Jun 28, 2020 · Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 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.
Aug 12, 2011 · According to Amazon’s Daily Deal blurb Laurie Lee’s Cider With Rosie was “an instant classic when it was first published in 1959 [and] one of the most endearing and evocative portraits of youth in all of literature”.
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Cider with Rosie is a memoir by Laurence Edward Alan Lee, or “Laurie” Lee. Published in 1959 by Hogarth Press, it centres around Lee’s upbringing in the English Cotswolds and how his mother struggles to raise a large family on her own. It was later revealed that Rosie is Rose Buckland, Lee’s cousin by marriage—they kept her identity a ...
Publisher's summary. 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 ...
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the ...
Sep 5, 2002 · ISBN: 9780099285663. Number of pages: 256. Weight: 181 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. Utterly captivating -. A classic of English literature -. [Laurie Lee] froze a moment in time for us. You don’t forget the language and he is wonderful at detail - Michael Morpurgo,
Jul 22, 2019 · Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wonderfully wicked sense of comedy, have made Cider with Rosie one of the most famous of all autobiographies. One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England.
