Deze trilogie biedt een intieme en poëtische reis door de kindertijd en adolescentie tegen de achtergrond van het Engelse platteland. Het vangt de ongebreidelde vreugde van de natuur, de aangrijpende ervaringen van opgroeien en complexe familiedynamiek door de ogen van een jongen. Het verhaal is rijk aan zintuiglijke details, nostalgie en de tijdloze schoonheid van het dagelijks leven. Het is een suggestieve viering van herinnering en veerkracht die diep resoneert bij lezers.
'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes' Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village.
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . 'He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour' Sunday Times 'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman 'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the autobiography of a young Englishman in the Spanish Civil War.