El Gato is the leader of the village’s militia group.
- Cider With Rosie (1959) (published in the U.S. as The Edge of Day (1960)) - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) - A Moment of War (1991) … around 2006, and loved each book. Laurie Lee: As I walked out one Midsummer morning A century ago tomorrow saw the birth of Laurie Lee, whose most famous work, Cider with Rosie, immortalised the … There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. Just magnificent. In 2016, I reread As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and I am delighted to report it is every bit as good as I had remembered. He spent the winter of 1935 in the village of Almuñécar and found himself witness to the outbreak of war. He visits … Never having seen the sea before, he decides he will go by way of Southampton though it will add another hundred miles to his journey. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) is a memoir by Laurie Lee, a British poet.It is a sequel to Cider with Rosie which detailed his early life in Gloucestershire after the First World War.In this sequel Lee leaves the security of his Cotswold village of Slad in Gloucestershire to start a new life, at the same time embarking on an epic journey on foot. Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (Penguin 1969) pages 165 – 167 Introduction During the 1930s Laurie Lee travelled from Gloucestershire in England to Spain. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie. In 1934 Laurie Lee leaves his home in Slad, Gloucestershire, for London, one hundred miles away. He begins to walk towards the Wiltshire Downs.