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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Apologies everyone - we have had a big week with a 90th birthday party and family staying here, so I was trying to do things in and between entertainment of guests etc.
Right - back to the book itself! You can tell straight away that Laurie Lee was a poet, can't you. I loved this description of the cottage on the day of the family's arrival, when his mother was bringing in:
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The poetic quality is certainly beautiful. The opening section reminded me a bit of Dylan Thomas's
A Child's Christmas in Wales in its exuberant imagery. Later sections are like different stanzas exploring the moods of the narrator as he tells us of the "Grannies in the Wainscot," the suicide and murder, and the evocation of his amazing mother.
It is a memoir to savour.