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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
- United Kingdom
- 1959
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Laurie Lee. 3.91. 13,757 ratings1,123 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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Laurie Lee (born June 26, 1914, Slad, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England—died May 13, 1997, Slad) was an English poet and prose writer best known for Cider with Rosie (1959), a memoir of the author’s boyhood in the Cotswold countryside.
- David Punter
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. Read on for an extract. 29 June 2020.
Jun 26, 2014 · A biography of the poet, novelist and screenwriter Laurie Lee, who immortalised rural life in his autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie. Learn about his childhood, his journeys, his writing and his legacy in Gloucestershire and Spain.
Faces of rose, familiar, living; huge shining faces hung up like shields between me and the sky; faces with grins and white teeth (some broken) to be conjured up like genii with a howl, brushing off terror with their broad scoldings and affection.
Jul 15, 2014 · Cider With Rosie's truth is not always of the literal variety. Reading Laurie Lee's vivid story of his childhood, a nagging question mark hovers over its factual truth – but should...
