I’m glad I waited until now to read this book, as I don’t think I would have appreciated it when I was younger. “They did! They said: ‘You’re Laurie Lee, ain’t you? Well, just you sit there for the present.’ I sat there all day but I never got it. When he comes home he tells the family about his disappointing day: I had never considered reading this book until now, partly because it reminded me of being at school (we never actually read the whole book, but I remember having to study excerpts from it for English comprehension exercises) and I think that was enough to put me off! The scene that I particularly remembered was the one where Laurie’s sisters send him off for his first day at school wrapped in scarves with a hot potato in his pocket. In Cider with Rosie he writes about his family and friends, his school days and the eccentric characters who lived and worked in Slad. Lee moved there at the age of three with his mother and siblings at the end of the First World War. Published in 1959, this first volume looks back on Lee’s childhood in the small Cotswold village of Slad in Gloucestershire. Laurie Lee was a British novelist and poet most famous for his autobiographical trilogy which begins with Cider with Rosie and continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War.
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