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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
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. Laurie Lee. 3.91. 13,932 ratings1,141 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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Aug 12, 2011 · The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside. 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.
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- Laurie Lee Mbe
Jun 10, 2014 · 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 (The New York Times). Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War.
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...
