From the bookshelves 3

The poet Laurie Lee's most well know work is the autobiographical Cider With Rosie (The Edge of Day). The autobiographical theme is continued in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. Nineteen year old Laurie leaves the Gloucestershire hamlet of Slad for London. He makes his way to Spain not long before the outbreak of civil war.

Laurie describes a post-war Spain in A Rose for Winter.

I Can't Stay Long is a collection of incidental writing the most poignant of which is an account of how the villagers are coping a year after the Aberfan disaster of 1966 when a mountain of slurry engulfed the village primary school school killing over a hundred children.