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| Author | Laurie Lee |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | John Stanton Ward |
| Cover artist | John Stanton Ward[1] |
| Language | English (UK) |
| Published | 1959 (Hogarth Press) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 284 |
| Followed by | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning |
Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960). It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide.
The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later. The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland.[2][3][4]
- ^ Fenwick, Simon (21 June 2007). "Obituary: John Ward". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ Once Upon a Time in a Village, BBC documentary broadcast on 4 January 2007
- ^ Womack, Philip (17 September 2014). "Laurie Lee's Rosie: What it's like to inspire a writer's work and be immortalised on the page?". The Independent. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ "'Real' Cider with Rosie dies days before 100th birthday". BBC News. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2018.