But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

S. Early life and works
Having been born in Stroud Lee moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917 the move with which Cider with Rosie opens. Works
Books
Land at War (1945)
An Obstinate Exile (1951)
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia (1955)
Man Must Move: The Story of Transport (with David Lambert) (1960); publiLaurie Leed in the U.

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet novelist and screenwriter raised in the village of Slad and went to Marling School Gloucestershire. The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935 and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.