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Cider With Rosie

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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. It's a lovely portrait of childhood innocence and growing up, after reading it I got a desperate urge to visit the Cotswolds. En este libro conoces la infancia y pubertad de Laurie Lee en un rinconcito inglés, bucólico, idílico y al que querrías ir en las próximas vacaciones. It was followed by As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, the tale of his lengthy wanderings on foot and with fiddle, and A Moment of War, his writings on the time he spent in Spain during the combative 1930s. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual.

For me, his sumptuous imagery and poetic prose ( and the fact that this was an autobiographical memoir, which reads like fiction) drew a comparison with Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals. Fans of Lee’s books often visit on a pilgrimage of sorts, to see for themselves the village they already know so well, thanks to Cider with Rosie (1959). Peace Day in 1919 is a colourful affair, the procession ending up at the squire's house, where he and his elderly mother make speeches. To be honest, that section blew me away, and parts of how he described his Mother reminded me of my own personal qualities. Laurie’s father abandoned his wife and children when the war was over, and Laurie grew up in a family dominated by women, chief of whom was his mother, a dreamer of dreams who ‘loved the world and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn’t keep a neat house for her life’.There were some nods to the writing of Welshman Dylan Thomas, and although the memoir was pleasant, with some poignant moments, I just found Lee's basis a little too sweet and sickly for my liking, like being covered in honey and having a big soppy Labrador lick it off.

After working in the Army Pay Corps their father entered the Civil Service and settled in London for good. Curiosamente cuando el libro me ha resultado más especial ha sido cuando el foco se dirigía a otras personas, como el capítulo que dedica a sus tíos, a su madre o el que va sobre dos ancianas rivales que viven una en el piso de arriba y otra en el piso de abajo.And yet there is something about the geography of the region that means that Slad will always feel a little as it does in Cider with Rosie. I was perfectly content in this world of women, muddle-headed though it might be, to be bullied and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days . It is two families that have come together, the elder children are from the first marriage; his father re-married when their mother died, and had a second family before going off to war. His is a book that conjures up a distinct and unmistakable sense of place and time, not just a sequence of events.

The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. This is also the time when Laurie Lee experiences the first stirrings of poetry welling up inside him. It is also a nod to the duality of nature, the depthy of its beauty, paralleled with it's boundless power and extremities (flooding, droughts).Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. His family was large totaling eight people; his Mother Annie (née Light), his eldest brother Jack, himself, his younger brother Tony, and his half-brother Harold (the first-born Reggie lived with his grandmother) and three half-sisters Marjorie, Dorothy, and Phyllis from their widower father. It is loosely linear, but organised in to thematic chapters, so pulls things out of full linear narrative to keep them together.

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