Laurie Lee Country

Laurie Lee, author of the beloved classic Cider with Rosie, was born in Gloucestershire in 1914. He spent his formative years in the village of Slad and the enclosing Cotswold valleyas he described it, greener and more decently lush than is decent to the general herbaceous smugness of the English countryside.” Drawing from Lee’s poetry and prose, this photo-laden homage to that verdant landscape offers us a uniquely personal view of the Cotswolds between the wars. Paul Barker and James Birdsall previously collaborated on The World of the Brontës.