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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By: Laurie Lee
Narrated by: Laurie Lee
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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

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A beautiful piece of writing
The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after he left home
A poet's book
He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour
There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down
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This has been my favourite book since I first read it at 15 years of age. To now be able to listen to it being read by the wonderful Laurie Lee is a real joy! Now on to A moment of war.

An absolute wonder!

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laurie Lee reads this as an old man the book he wrote when he was twenty , Its poetic and beautiful, sometimes very sad sometimes very funny

wonderfully descriptive

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Beautifully told and written I’ve read it several times over 50 years and now listened to the audible version by the author who was mature at the time and read from splendid memories of a Young man on a mysterious adventure full of the throes of youth and the unknown entering a new world and culture of early thirties Spain. Well worth a read or a listen.

Historical classic

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Masterpiece. Evocative. Exciting. Insightful. Mesmerising. Humble. Gorgeous. Hot. Traumatic. Timeless. Flowing. Recommended. Read. Favourite..

All time favourite

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I was lucky enough to meet Laurie Lee back in 1985. His writing can bring you to tears for it's pure mastery.

Laurie Lee's voice and the unimaginably beautiful prose.

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