![]() Image 'What is poetry?' - Copyright: Used with permission.Body text - Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0: The Open University.Originally published: Tuesday, 20th October 2015.But ultimately it wasn’t Rosie who was to prove the biggest influence on Lee’s young life it was his Mother, whose depiction in the book remains one of the most powerful in all literature. While the author always maintained that she was a composite of several of his early girlfriends, there are some tantalising clues that hint at her being a particular neighbour of the young Lee. The real life identity of the Rosie immortalised in the book’s title has always been an intrigue. Under the surface of countryside idyll, the dark, hard-edged undercurrents of the book continue to have a popular appeal. The book had a long gestation period, and a difficult composition process, but eventually became the break-out hit of Lee’s literary career. Nevertheless, these intoxicating and poetic descriptions of youth capture the essence of a life lived one hundred years ago, an aspect of the book which has made readers treasure it in the generations since. ![]() ![]() ![]() Family friends and local historians will testify that Lee was not always strictly faithful to the literal truth in the book, blending fact with fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Explore Cider with Rosie with an exclusive video and activities.Ĭider with Rosie, Laurie Lee’s memoir of growing up after the First World War, is set in the tiny Cotswold village of Slad. ![]()
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