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Language 024124367X 
Village Christmas and other notes on the English year. 
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Publication year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Classification: 920.LEE
Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2016.
ISBN: 024124367X 9780241243671 (pbk): 8.99
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Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was 19, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his home - from centuries-old May Day rituals to his own patch of garden, and from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs. Here too he writes about the mysteries of love, living in wartime Chelsea, Winston Churchill's wintry funeral and his battle, in old age, to save his beloved Slad Valley from developers. Told with a warm sense of humour and a powerful sense of history, this work brings us a picture of a vanished world.
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160 pages.
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Laurie Lee encapsulates the whole feeling of village England ,loved it.
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