Cider With Rosie

Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, 'He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions'.

"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 "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