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Lyrical memoir of 1920s Cotswold childhood in a remote village before cars and electricity, blending innocence, family life, and first love.
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Lyrical memoir of 1920s Cotswold childhood in a remote village before cars and electricity, blending innocence, family life, and first love.
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Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity and 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.'It sings in the memory' Sunday TimesLaurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wonderfully wicked sense of comedy, h...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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First sexual experience under hay wagon with Rosie after drinking cider; not graphically explicit.
Violence & gore
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Mentions of village murder, violent sexual relations, and commonplace rural brutality.
Profanity
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No strong language depicted.
Substance use
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Central scene involves drinking fermented cider; alcohol part of village social life.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation.
Religious content
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Minor village rituals and school references; no overt religiosity.
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft depicted.
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content.
Political content
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Backdrop of WWI and encroaching modernization; no explicit messaging.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Mentions of quiet incest, absent father, and family hardship in rural setting.
Other
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No additional content warnings.