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14,110 ratings1,167 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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Mar 10, 2024 · Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie has long been a favourite here at Letterpress and indeed was one of the first reviews posted. It has been on my ‘don’t forget to reread’ list for years. But a curious thing happens with books that have achieved immense and enduring popularity: we become somewhat blind to them.
Regardless of factual accuracy, Cider with Rosie has had the impact it has because it feels true to Slad, and to the Cotswolds. It is easy to think of Cider with Rosie as a slice of English nostalgia, a recollection of idyllic rural village life in the early twentieth century.
Feb 8, 2021 · Laurie Lee’s wonderful evocation of his childhood, in a small Cotswold village in ‘Cider With Rosie’ was a memorable recent read. The book starts in the wake of the First World War. Lee was at the time just a small boy of three.
Jun 28, 2020 · 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. Read on for an extract.
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.
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Oct 25, 2014 · Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. The blurb: 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.
