As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a beautiful and moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie
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 Poets (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).
A beautiful piece of writing
*Observer*
The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened
after he left home
*Daily Mail*
A poet's book
*Sunday Times*
He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the
humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour
*Sunday Times*
There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely
makes it difficult to put the book down
*New Statesman*
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