Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee's luminous memoir captures a vanished England—his Cotswold childhood in the 1920s, told with sensory richness that makes you taste the cider and feel the summer grass. It's one of those rare books that transforms the ordinary into poetry, where a boy's first encounters with love, loss, and village life become something utterly enchanting. Perfect for readers who savour lyrical prose and nostalgic, beautifully observed coming-of-age tales.