As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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