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Red Sky at Sunrise

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141927374

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • RRP: £14.99

Red Sky at Sunrise

  • Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War

British poet Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and 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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141927374

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • Will tell you more about the Civil War than Hemingway or any history book

    Sunday Telegraph

  • A prose poem that flashes and winks like a prism

    H. E. Bates

  • The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after he left home

    Daily Mail

  • This story aches with unforgotten cold and trembles with unforgotten terror

    Guardian

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About the Author

Laurie Lee

Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).

Laurie Lee

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Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

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 change. Read on for an extract.
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Features

'Down in the Valley' is a must-read for fans of 'Cider with Rosie'

A new book of conversations with Laurie Lee is a charming portrait of the author as a young man, a love letter to the landscape he called home and a perfect accompaniment to his best-known work, discovers John Self.

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