Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee, 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 & woods & characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate & real & belongs to a now-distant past. An undisputed modern classic, “ Cider with Rosie” is the first volume of Laurie Lee’s three-part autobiographical series; the beautifully-written story of childhood turning into adolescence & then to young adulthood, from one of the greatest social chroniclers of his age.