Vintage Classics: Cider With Rosie

'I belonged to that generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand years' life . . . a world of hard work; of villages like ships in the empty landscapes; of white narrow roads, rutted by hooves and cart-wheels, innocent of oil or petrol . . .'

'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. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belonging to a now-distant past.