Monday, February 03, 2020

Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee)

Laurie Lee
Cider With Rosie



An evocative memory of life growing up in rural Gloucestershire Cotswolds as life changed from century old ways into the modern world. It was a time when villages and communities policed themselves which I guess can be good or bad dependent on the whims of those communities but seems far better than the centralised policing of today. It's edgier than I remember but maybe that's a reflection of how times have changed over the last few decades than my memory. So well written that I found it difficult to put down. "It is not crime that has increased, but its definition. The modern city, for youth, is a police-trap."  That was written 60 years ago and is even more relevant now.

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