Laurie Lee

In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but sham

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of

Wraz z Lauriem Lee podróżujemy w przeszłość, do czasów tuż po I wojnie światowej, do małej i ubogiej angielskiej wioski w Gloucestershire. To tam w gronie licznego rodzeństwa, pod opieką porzuconej przez męża matki, autor spędził dzieciństw

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucke