Cider With Rosie cover art

Cider With Rosie

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Cider With Rosie

By: Laurie Lee
Narrated by: Laurie Lee
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.


The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.

'Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory' Sunday Times


© Laurie Lee 1959 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

 Art & Literature Authors Cultural & Regional Historical Rural Sociology Village Heartfelt

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Last Train to Zona Verde cover art
The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover art
Lark Rise cover art
Home Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Volume 1 cover art
The Hurley Maker's Son cover art
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue cover art
Christmas Book At Bedtime cover art
The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
Honour Thy Father cover art
Light in August cover art
The Country Child cover art
Our Great Canal Journeys cover art
On the Plain of Snakes cover art
The Old Patagonian Express cover art
Black Venus cover art
British Woodland cover art

Critic reviews

Utterly captivating
A classic of English literature
[Laurie Lee] froze a moment in time for us. You don’t forget the language and he is wonderful at detail (Michael Morpurgo)
Evocative memoir.
So convincing and atmospheric… This magical book will captivate you with its richly painted images
All stars
Most relevant
This is a performance I return to regularly. Although the whole story is enchanting and conjures up time gone by, hearing it read in Laurie Lee’s own soft cotswold accent is incredibly soothing. If I’m awake in the night, this is my go to. I don’t need to listen to the story, so I can drift off and know that when I wake, I shall have slept well, and Laurie will still be gently burbling a bucolic love song to his lost world. ❤️❤️❤️

So completely right

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Such an evocative book. Full of images of a world long past. A treasure of time.

Superb

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The fact that it is read by the author makes it better. Sometimes the narrative is magical. A classic.

Beautiful book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
After a recent visit to the Cotswolds (near Slad and Stroud) it was lovely to be able to listen to Laurie Lee narrate his own touching and descriptive recount of his childhood, an eta truly passed. Enjoyed it immensely.

Delightful!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Mr Lee in his authenticity evokes melody in his prose, a living rhythmic picture.

Memories of first reading and the tears still flow

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews