Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBEwas an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the village of Slad and went to the Central Boys' School, Stroud, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningand A Moment of War. The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 June 1914
I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.
I was last among the long grass and I'd never seen long grass and never been on my own and out of sight of humans before.
The sun sets down at the end of the valley over the Severn and there's this afterglow which catches those quarries and it just sits there glowing when the light is gone from everywhere else in the valley - it holds the light to the last drop.
What happened was unpredictable but it also reminded many readers of their beginnings and their family recollections.
For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,