6/11/2023 0 Comments Laurie lee novel![]() ![]() Lee lived a fascinating life (check out the follow up to Cider with Rosie – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning) but it is Cider with Rosie that people most associate him with. “My life began on the carrier’s cart which brought me up the long slow hills to the village.” A life now lost However Cider with Rosie is much more linear in fashion and starts from the day Lee moves in to his house in a remote Cotswold village. ![]() At first glance it is quite similar to A Village Christmas being autobiographical in style. A Village Christmas makes reference to Cider with Rosie and as a result I purchased a copy when I spotted it in my local charity shop. I had read the beautiful A Village Christmas last (last) year and loved Lee’s style of writing. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past. Who fancies Cider with Rosie? We do! Cider with Rosie – the blurbĬider 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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