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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. The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the ...
- Laurie Lee
- United Kingdom
- 1959
- 284
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. The book nostalgically evokes the simplicity and innocence of a vanished rural world amid the swirl of technological change and was ...
- David Punter
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. 28 June 2020
Jul 15, 2014 · “Laurie Lee’s memoir is about sensory perception rather than the cognitive process. In fact Cider With Rosie seems most like is an extended text poem and it is a glorious work for that.”
And Marjorie, the eldest, lifted me into her long brown hair, and ran me jogging down the path and through the steep rose-filled garden, and set me down on the cottage doorstep, which was our home, though I couldn’t believe it. That was the day we came to the village, in the summer of the last year 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 (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 ...
Feb 24, 1999 · The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. Rosie's identity from the novel Cider with Rosie was kept secret for 25 years. She was Rose Buckland, Lee's cousin by marriage. From the Paperback edition.
- Laurie Lee
