A beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee&s celebrated autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning & A Moment of War&I was set down from the carrier&s cart at the age of three; & there with a sense of bewilderment & terror my life in the village began&& This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections beginning with the dazzling lights & sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long For nineteen years this was the limit of my world then one midsummer morning I left home & walked to London & down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties Never had I felt so fat with time so free to go where I would Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War &
- Laurie Lee