description: One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. As his father was absent, the large familyfive children from his father's first marriage and three from his second onewas brought up by his capable mother. "We lived where he had left us; a relic of his provincial youth; a sprawling cumbersome, countrified brood too incongruous to carry with him; and I, for one, scarcely missed him. I was perfectly content in this world of women . . . bullied and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days, patched or dressed-up, scolded, admired, swept off my feet in sudden passions of kisses, or dumped forgotten among the unwashed pots."
language: English
title: Cider with Rosie
titlecomplete: Cider with Rosie
characters: Laurie Lee
genres: 20th Century, History, Classics, Modern Classics, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 13366
places: Slad, Gloucestershire, England, Cotswolds, England, Sheepscombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
series: The Autobiographical Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: BBC