
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- Author Laurie Lee
- Narrator Laurie Lee
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic travel writing, Memoirs.
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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
© Laurie Lee 1969 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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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