Laurie Lee Reads From 'Cider With Rosie'.

2 part dramatisation of Lee's classic tale of his 1920's Cotswold childhood. If you have never come across this classic piece of literature, this is highly recommended listening.

4 July 1977: As the millionth paperback copy of Cider With Rosie is sold, Dennis Johnson goes to see its author, Laurie Lee, in the Cotswold village where the story originated.

Laurie lee. Cider with rosie. I was set down from the carrier’s cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. The June grass, amongst which I stood, was taller than I was, and I wept. I had never been so close to grass before. It towered above me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. It was knife-edged, dark, and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys. I was lost and didn’t know where to move

Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide

In Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee recalls his childhood and adolescence. He was one of seven children in a close family headed by his mother : he grew up in England, in a Cotswold village governed by tradition. The book is organised in accord with his own early exploration of his widening world

Lee was 45 when Cider With Rosie was published and it would bring him much acclaim. The text was favoured by schools up and down the country and it continues to attract thousands of readers around the world. The second part of Lee's autobiographical trilogy would take him back to when he was 19-years-old. He left behind the village he spoke so fondly of in Cider With Rosie and set off on a journey on foot that would take him to London, the English coast and then by boat to Vigo in Galicia, north-western Spain

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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. Imprint: Vintage Classics. Published: 05/09/2002. Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm.