![]() ![]() Lee was a sickly child, doted on by his older half-sisters. ![]() His father left his new family after just a few years, and for the next three decades Lee’s mother dutifully waited for a return that never came. Lee was part of his father’s second brood, born out of the widower’s remarriage to his housekeeper. Taking such a long break wasn’t a major problem because the book’s vignettes are thematically arranged, so there was no plot as such to lose track of. ![]() I got through the first 100 pages quickly, with the voice reminding me slightly of Gerald Durrell’s in his autobiographical trilogy, but then set the book aside for over a year before picking it back up for this summer’s food- and drink-themed reading. I started reading Cider with Rosie in April 2019 when we stopped in Stroud for a night on the way back from a holiday in Devon. He was born in 1914 and his childhood unfolded in Stroud, Gloucestershire and nearby village Slad. (20 Books of Summer #2) Lee’s quaint family memoir is set in the years immediately after World War I. ![]()
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