As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie
Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that
raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a
living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further
a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give
me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain.
With just a blanket
to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain,
from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . . 'He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the
humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour' Sunday
Times
'There's a formidable, instant charm in the
writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New
Statesman'A beautiful piece of writing' Observer
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee
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