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Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

Start date: May 1, 2020

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Jul 26, 2017 Sara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, world-war-1

3.5-stars Rounded Up.

Cider With Rosie is a memoir of Laurie Lee’s life in the Cotswolds immediately following World War I, and reminded me of A. J. Cronin’s The Green Years, being told by a young boy of a poor family. I thought this book was quite lovely in places and a bit bogged down in others. It had marvelous potential that it dropped just short of reaching.

There is a story about two “grannies” who live next door to the Lee family, rivals and grudging enemies, their story made me think of tw ...more

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Nov 03, 2013 Christine rated it liked it

Shelves: british-literature, classics, biography-memoir, library-books, audiobooks, radio-bbc-4, read-in-2014, romance-lovers-challenge-2014

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1. Evocative tale of a West Country childhood. The Lee family arrive in their new home. Recorded on location. Stars Tim McInnerny.

2. Young Loll's first taste of the world. Evocative tale of Lee's Gloucestershire childhood reaches the 1930s. ...more

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