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Cider with Rosie

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Cider with Rosie is a 1959 memoir by English writer Laurie Lee about his childhood in Slad, a village in Gloucestershire's Cotswolds. Organized as a sequence of remembered scenes rather than a strict chronological record, it depicts family life, school, village customs, landscape, poverty, and social change after the First World War. The book is intended for readers interested in rural English life, childhood recollection, and lyrical autobiographical prose.

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Is Cider with Rosie a novel or a true autobiography?

Cider with Rosie is Laurie Lee's autobiographical account of his childhood in Slad, Gloucestershire. Published in 1959, it uses vivid reconstructed scenes rather than following a strict year-by-year chronology.

Who is Rosie in Cider with Rosie?

Rosie is the older village girl connected with Lee's remembered adolescent encounter involving cider. She is not the memoir's sole subject; the book ranges across his family, school, neighbors, landscape, and village customs.

What period of English village life does Cider with Rosie describe?

Lee recalls growing up after the First World War in a Cotswold village still shaped by older rural traditions. Motor vehicles, modern communications, and social change gradually intrude on the secluded world of Slad.

Does Laurie Lee continue his life story after Cider with Rosie?

Yes. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning follows his departure from home and travels through Spain, while A Moment of War recounts his experience during the Spanish Civil War.

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