It sings in the memory -Sunday Times It has got.
JB Priestly Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. Independent An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished. Review Quotes One of the great writers of the twentieth century. Cider with Rosie became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read all over the world. This beautifully shot, elegiac drama is a coming-of-age story set in a remote English valley post-WWI. The sophisticated adult authors retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom her hair was rich as a wild bees nest and her eyes were full of stings.
The center of his world, that is, until he meets someone very special. Abandoned by her husband, Lauries adoring mother becomes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own. Cider with Rosie is the classic memoir of growing up in a remote Gloucestershire village, a world that Laurie Lee makes tangibly real even as its now in a distant past. Book Synopsis The wonderfully charming and poignant memoir of youth in a rural English village-and a fatherless family-set against the backdrop of the Great War.
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