![]() 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. With this beautiful special edition, Vintage Classics celebrates 100 years since the birth of the author, Laurie Lee, and salutes this remarkable, surprising and well-loved classic. 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. It overflows with stories and characters made fantastical by the writer's child-perspective, and it draws the reader irresistibly into the lost land of the past. Cider With Rosie is the best and most vital kind of memoir, rich with colourful, sensuous impressions of life in an English village after the First World War. Cider With Rosie is the best and most vital kind of memoir, rich with colourful, sensuous impressions of life in an English village after the First World War. we used up the light to its last violet drop, and even then we couldn't go to bed. ![]() All sights twice-brilliant and smells twice-sharp, all game-days twice as long. All this, and the feeling that it would never end, that such days had come forever. ![]() ![]() WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO Summer was also the time of these- of sudden plenty, of slow hours and actions, of diamond haze and dust on the eyes of jazzing wasps and dragonflies, haystooks and thistle-seeds, snows of white butterflies, skylark's eggs, bee-orchids, and frantic ants. ![]()
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