Cider with Rosie in James Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die

Feb 24, 2013 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2014, british-literature, hf-world-war-i, memoir-biography, audio-books, fiction-20th-century

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Dramatisation of Laurie Lee's account of growing up in a remote Cotswold village in the 1920s. With Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack. ...more

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Jul 24, 2009 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mood-boosting-books, on-the-road, memoir, poverty, the-classics-club

Laurie Lee grew up in a rural part of England during the
time just after the Great War. His father abandoned his mother with
eight children to raise. Lee was almost always hungry and cold. But
life never seemed hard; somehow it seemed joyous and delightful.

I was especially taken with the chapter about the devilments children
and young people got into during Lee's time. Back in Lee's day, as
today, terrible things happened. But somehow the village and its
people just seemed to deal with them, not makin ...more

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Apr 20, 2021 Carlton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: auto-biography, 1000-books-to-read

Warm, humorous, but not entirely rose-tinted, stories and recollections of the joys and hardships of life in rural Gloucestershire just after the First World War. This beautifully written memoir published in 1959 contains lyrical prose describing the experiences of a poor rural childhood with fresh eyed innocence and beguiling charm. There is crime, but Lee describes it as being dealt with within the village, without recourse to external official authority.

An example of the humour:
”What’s the ma ...more

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