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  1. The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later.

    • Laurie Lee
    • 1959
  2. Learn More. 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
  3. Sep 27, 2015 · Cider with Rosie: Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. With Timothy Spall, Samantha Morton, Georgie Smith, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen. A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

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    • Drama
    • Philippa Lowthorpe
    • 2015-09-27
  4. Jun 28, 2020 · ‘Down in the Valley’ is a must-read for fans of ‘Cider with Rosie’ A new book of conversations with Laurie Lee is a charming portrait of the author as a young man, a love letter to the landscape he called home and a perfect accompaniment to his best-known work, discovers John Self

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  6. Nov 6, 2019 · The success of Cider with Rosie enabled him to buy his old childhood home, and returned to Slad at first gradually – living there with his wife at weekends while he worked in London – and then permanently. ‘I went to about forty countries while I was away,’ he says in Down in the Valley, ‘but I knew I would have to come back here ...

  7. May 9, 2014 · Published in 1959, this first volume looks back on Lee’s childhood in the small Cotswold village of Slad in Gloucestershire. Lee moved there at the age of three with his mother and siblings at the end of the First World War.

  8. Sep 14, 2015 · A vivid memoir of Laurie Lee’s childhood, Cider With Rosie is an evocative coming-of-age story set in an idyllic Cotswold village during and immediately after the Great War. Published: 14...

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