Rather than a tale of struggle and poverty that we might expect given the circumstance of being raised in a large single parent family, in Laurie Lee’s hands, family life is narrated as a bundle of daily adventures and anecdotes that celebrate village life, sibling love, old lady madness and an attitude of making the most of it.īorn in 1914,and writing this memoir in 1959, Lee’s style shares what he saw looking out at his view of the world, rather than looking within, it is a celebration of the time and a tribute to those he loved, respected, feared and was in awe of around him – including young Rosie, who makes the briefest of appearances luring him into the haystack, a significant turning point in his life no less. a marvellous morning freshness.A nostalgic memoir of early boyhood in a Cotswold village, recalling memories from the age of 3-years-old, surrounded by older sisters and siblings, the father having long abandoned the family household, leaving the housekeeper who had become his wife, to raise the children of his first marriage and the four he had with her. It sings in the memory -Sunday Times It has got. JB Priestly Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. Independent An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished. Review Quotes One of the great writers of the twentieth century. Cider with Rosie became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read all over the world. The sophisticated adult authors retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom her hair was rich as a wild bees nest and her eyes were full of stings. The center of his world, that is, until he meets someone very special. Abandoned by her husband, Lauries adoring mother bes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own. 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 its now in a distant past.

Book Synopsis The wonderfully charming and poignant memoir of youth in a rural English village-and a fatherless family-set against the backdrop of the Great War.

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