Red Sky at Sunrise
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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; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.'
'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and 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 and walked to London and 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
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 28/10/1993
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ISBN: 9780141927374
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Length: 544 Pages
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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Will tell you more about the Civil War than Hemingway or any history book
Sunday Telegraph
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A prose poem that flashes and winks like a prism
H. E. Bates
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The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after he left home
Daily Mail
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This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror
Guardian
