Book description
Spanning the first twenty-three years of his remarkable life, Laurie
Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy is presented here in one
delightful volume.
Beginning with Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee writes evocatively of
his idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds of the twenties, a world of
rich sensuousness and native innocence. 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer
Morning' picks up the story as he leaves his valley for London and
then for Spain. There, equipped only with a violin and his wits, he
crossed the dramatic landscape of a vibrant and still almost medieval
Spain for which he developed an abiding affection. In the winter of
1937 he returned to a country now in the grip of Civil War and joined
the International Brigade, describing in A Moment of War his journey
into the dark side of Spain with unsparing honesty and poignancy.
