As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
23 July 2014
Pages
224
ISBN
9780241953280

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee

The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie

‘The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world’

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 …

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