The story of his life is, anyway, an interesting one. Some of the episodes recounted in the book are said to have been products of Lee’s imagination, but – as he said himself – it was the ‘feeling’ of his childhood that he was endeavouring to capture. The book charts, in poetic language, the experiences of a child living in a world that is within living memory and yet has quite disappeared. This autobiographical account of a Cotswold childhood has, for thousands of students, been part of their English Literature syllabus.įor anyone visiting the area, Cider With Rosie is well worth reading, but it is especially pertinent here as it is largely set in Slad, where Lee was brought up and lived for much of his life. And yet he is not instantly remembered for his poetry, but for his enchanting book, Cider With Rosie. The Slad Valley is one of the least spoiled parts of the Cotswolds, and it has a long-standing association with the area’s most important literary figure, the poet Laurie Lee (1914–97).
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