![]() Born to the second wife of his absent father, his mother, brothers and half-sisters move to their cottage in Slad village in the final summer of the First World War when Laurie or Loll as he is frequently called is just three years old. ![]() How strange and illogical are the connections we make between books sometimes.Ĭider with Rosie is the first of three memoirs that Laurie Lee wrote about his life, this first book the account of his childhood and adolescence in Gloucestershire in the early twentieth century. The Catharine Zeta Jones TV thing (even though I didn’t watch a minute of it) put me off that – and so by association Cider with Rosie. I think there was a time when my poor confused brain muddled it with The Darling Buds of May (why I don’t know) another book I haven’t read but have been well aware of. ![]() ![]() Cider with Rosie is certainly such a book for me, why it has taken me until now to read it I don’t know. Probably for all of us there exist books we have always been aware of – books so well known, and well-loved by others, that their titles are as familiar to us as those books we’ve read over and over. ![]()
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