This is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. Unearthed from recordings thought to be lost, it is both a lively companion piece to Cider with Rosie and a behind-the-scenes look at Lee’s beloved home. It is a valuable document, providing a colourful and unguarded account from Lee, who rarely gave interviews in later life. Now a newly published book gives us fresh insights into Lee’s life and work, both before and after his success as a writer.ĭown in the Valley: A Writer’s Landscape comes from conversations Lee had with the filmmaker David Parker in 1994, three years before his death. The New York Times called it ‘magically contagious’, and the villagers of Almunecar in Spain, where Lee lived in the 1930s, erected a monument in his honour. Laurie Lee is a writer who is not just a national treasure in the UK, but whose descriptions of his childhood in the tiny Gloucestershire village of Slad, in Cider with Rosie, have been embraced by the world.
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