PublishedPenguin Modern Classics, July 2014 |
ISBN9780241953280 |
FormatSoftcover, 224 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13.1cm × 1.4cm |
The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world'
Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . .
