Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. Laurie Lee draws contrasts vividly - then and now, summer and winter, quiet and bustle, presence and absence. They wait for her one Sunday morning in Brith Wood, but when Bill and Boney accost her she slaps them twice and they lose courage, allowing her to run away down the hill. This is a very heart-warming book told with so much understanding ad love for the place and people who lived there. Firstly let me admit that I'm a fan of history and not just battles, Kings, Queens, dates etc but socila history as well.

Even in summer, the valleys provide a uniquely rugged contrast to the otherwise quaint villages of the Cotswolds – it’s near impossible to go for a stroll here without finding yourself a little out of breath. La historia está siempre rodeada del halo de nostalgia e ingenuidad que conlleva contar la propia infancia en un paraje y época como los que describe. Their new home is nestled deep in the valley, warmed by open fires and water is got from a pump outside the back door. The week before Christmas the church choir goes carol-singing, which involves a five-mile tramp through deep snow. Speaking of Granny Trill he says, ”although she had a clock, she kept it simply for the tick, its hands having dropped off years ago.Laurie va creciendo y mientras también vamos conociendo historias de sus vecinos, muchas de ellas llenas de nostalgia y de melancolía que enternecen a cualquiera.

There was a reassuring prevalence of Penguin books, resplendent in orange cummerbunds, as I rummaged through a squished cardboard box in my attic. First Light describes Laurie arriving with his mother and the rest of the family at a cottage in the Cotswolds village of Slad, Gloucestershire.Life in a rural community was as much about the daily life and way that the seasons slowed moved on slowly. His family was large totaling eight people; his Mother Annie (née Light), his eldest brother Jack, himself, his younger brother Tony, and his half-brother Harold (the first-born Reggie lived with his grandmother) and three half-sisters Marjorie, Dorothy, and Phyllis from their widower father.