Lee Tulloch

Advantages: a quick and fun read
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Advantages: Profound, deep, agile.
Disadvantages: It's written in Geordiespeak.

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Advantages: Gloriously rich and lyrical.
Disadvantages: none at all.

...Despite not having been alive in the early part of the twentieth century, Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie filled me with nostalgia. I grew up in the Cotswolds, and Lee descriptions of the beautiful Slad valley area captured my heart and my imagination. Lee's mother had been abandonned with a horde of children - some her own and some from her husbad's first marriage. Setting up home in a cottage near Stroud, she does her best to keep everyone together. Mrs Lee is an eccentric woman, and Laurie's childhood is filled with the unusual. While they are clearly very poor, Lee does not reflect on the hardhip too much. Lee tells the tale of his boyhood through a series of specific and general accounts - we see the two elderly ladies who live nearby, one subsisting on tea, the other making wine. We see school outings, working life, illness... Read review

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