Cider With Rosie

Laurie Lee author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Sep '02

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Cider With Rosie cover

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

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. 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.

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside

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. 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.

‘Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory’ Sunday Times

Utterly captivating * Four Shires *
A classic of English literature * Good Book Guide *
[Laurie Lee] froze a moment in time for us. You don’t forget the language and he is wonderful at detail -- Michael Morpurgo * Daily Express *
Evocative memoir. * RTE Guide *
So convincing and atmospheric… This magical book will captivate you with its richly painted images * Woman's Weekly *
It has got a marvellous morning freshness. There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling * Daily Mail *
Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory * Sunday Times *
One of the great writers of the twentieth century * Independent *
An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished -- J.B. Priestly
He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision * Guardian *

ISBN: 9780099285663

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 14mm

Weight: 185g

256 pages