Cider with Rosie & As I Walked Out One Summer Morning

by Laurie Lee

Genres: Biography

384 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 1990

About the author

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE, was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). While the first volume famously recounts his childhood in the idyllic Slad Valley, the second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1934, and the third with his return in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigade.

Reviews

[John Severs · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I walked out one midsummer morning is a superb book and one I will definitely read again. A true story of when he walked from his home in Gloucestershire, along the south coast (because he wanted to see the sea), up to London and from there to Spain where he walked from La Coruna down to Algeciras and then escaping through the Pyrenees when the Spanish Civil War broke out.

One of my favourite books ever.

[Megan Halili · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have only read CwR, and it was walking hand-held through a garden. Breathless.

[Dave Bradshaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thourghly enjoyed these two books.