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I'm a sucker for this kind of book. As often happens with the older classics, Cider With Rosie started as a few magazine articles which eventually came together as a sort of memoir of the author's youth in a far flung Cotswold village where he lived in a ramshackle, leaky cottage with his two brothers and his three older step-sisters. His father deserted the family early on, including his own daughters, leaving his wife to raise all six surviving children with naught but an occasional financial
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Laurie Lee recounts his youth in the Slad Valley of the Cotswolds, England from his earliest memories to early teens. He lived with his Mother and 2 brothers, 3 step-sisters and a step-brother. His Father, after siring 5 living children on his first wife (who dies in childbirth), hiring a housekeeper to clean and care for them, marries her and sires 4 more, leaves them all for London. He sends a pittance for their care for the rest of his life but never returns. Life is tough but little differen
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