Cider with Rosie

First published in 1959, this autobiographical narrative recalls Laurie Lee's childhood in the village of Slad in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds in the years after the First World War. He describes a crowded cottage ruled by his mother, the absent father, sisters and neighbours, school, church, seasons, and the last working of a horse-drawn village. The title episode is an adolescent afternoon in the grass with Rosie, a local girl, and a jar of cider. The book is a memoir of a particular place at the end of an older rural order, not a novel, though it is shaped as a sequence of set scenes rather than a year-by-year chronicle.

Three-quarter bound in light green cloth with colour image printed paper cover. Slipcase printed with wrap-around colour picture, black caps.