Adaptation of Laurie Lee's memoir of growing up in the Slad Valley during and after WWI, exploring the idyll of his early years and the intensity of adolescent experiences. A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War. Far more important to Loll's schooldays are the captivating Burdock sisters, Jo and Rosie, and, as he grows into adolescence and beyond, eventually leaving home to seek his fortune, he samples the delights of cider with Rosie.
1977, UK
9 November 1989, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
30 October 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
24 April 1978, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK
12 February 1934, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
1995
22 July 1997, London, England, UK
11 November 1925, Streatham, London, England, UK
13 May 1977, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
August 30, 2017
This stayed just the right side of sentimentality, and was nicely bucolic without going too Darling Buds Of May, but the chronology was strange.
