Summer: Laurie Lee

How do you remember the summers of your childhood?

For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee`s joyful and stirring writing captures the very essence of England`s golden season.

Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee