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Red Sky at Sunrise
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War | Laurie Lee
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'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' 'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home and walked to London and down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War . . .' - Laurie Lee
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All three of Lee's marvellous memoirs, recounting his life from early childhood in the rural, small-village idyll (leavened with menace) of his Cotswolds home, to his bohemian young adulthood busking his way across Spain with a violin, then getting embroiled in the Spanish Civil War, opposing the fascists. Lyrically beautiful writing.