Laurie Lee
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"Laurence Edward Alan" ""Laurie"" "Lee", Order of the British Empire/MBE was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the village of Slad and went to the Marling School/Central Boys' School, Stroud, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Second Spanish Republic/Republican International Brigades.

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A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War.

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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

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I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

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I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.

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I crossed the Pyrenees in December, nearly got frozen to death in a blizzard and arrived carrying a violin, a camera and books.

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Here we lived and fed in a family fug, not minding the little space, trod on each other like birds in a hole, elbowed our ways without spite, all talking at once or silent at once, or crying against each other, but never I think feeling overcrowded, being as separate as notes in a scale.

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