The valley was a funnel through which the winds howled bringing them flood and snow. He does not sentimentalise this pastoral simplicity. Mr Lee describes his childhood in a small Cotswold village, so isolated from the world that it still retained ‘then blood and beliefs of generations who had been in this valley since the Stone Age ’.
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Its vigour and delicacy animate the loveliness of existence. Mr Laurie Lee’s Cider With Rosie is a first-rate work of art. First rate works of art, in that they enlarge experience and enhance life, in that they reveal for us new shafts of beauty or fresh aspects of human character, provide lasting exhilaration.
Second-rate works of art, especially when they are technically competent, leave us with a sense of depression. With Laurie Lee’s classic coming of age story, Cider With Rosie coming to BBC1 this Autumn, we dip into the archives to share Harold Nicolson’s review of the book from November 1959.
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