Cider with Rosie is a childhood/youth memoir by Laurie Lee. Lee grew up in a small village in Gloucestershire around the time of the end of the Great War. He was born into a family with many children and was raised by his mother and older sisters (his father stayed in London after the war and did no...
bookshelves: published-1969, travel, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, summer-2014, spain Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 13 to 20, 2014 BOTW http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046j8z7 Description: It was 1934 and a young man walked to London...
I dithered about my rating for I Can't Stay Long. It's a collection of short articles, essays and memoir that Lee put together from the flotsam and jetsam of papers on his study floor, and the result is somewhat uneven.Divided into three sections, Part One is a return to Slad, Lee's childhood home a...
This is not a fast-paced adventure book but it does create a beautiful picture of quiet country lanes, honeysuckle on the breeze and both the wonders and tragedies of living so far out in a world controlled solely by the forces of nature.It's a lovely portrait of childhood innocence and growing up, ...
mp3 - stuga galley work continued! cake anyone?---Cider with Rosie (unabridged) - Read by Laurie LeeSource CDDuration approx 7:48 hours FhG MPEG 1 Layer III 48 Kbps CBR 44100Hz, 16-bit, MonoBlurb from BBC:The book"Cider with Rosie" is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold vill...
A quintessential coming of age story. It tells of Laurie Lee’s childhood in Gloucestershire, just after WW1. But it is not only Lee’s coming of age, it is also that of the village, as the rural backwater changes rapidly, losing many of its traditional village ways and gaining things such as motor ve...
Laurie Lee grew up in a rural part of England during thetime just after the Great War. His father abandoned his mother witheight children to raise. Lee was almost always hungry and cold. Butlife never seemed hard; somehow it seemed joyous and delightful.I was especially taken with the chapter about ...
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