Spotted this cracker of a book in an Oxfam window recently.  I had assumed that it must be an American publication, given the differing meanings of the word ‘cider’ between the USA and the UK, but the amazon listing for the book tells me otherwise:

“Cider with Rosie” is the first part of the poet Laurie Lee’s (1914-1997) autobiographical trilogy. It describes his life in the Gloucestershire village of Slad from his earliest years until he was twenty. He tells of thin winters, fat summers, local legends and ghosts, of neighbours and relations, and of growing up against a half-pagan landscape in which violence and madness, country follies and feasts were all part of one pastoral mess-pot.

That description doesn’t seem to match the cover at all!  To be fair, I suppose not many people are writing books about getting pissed on cider with teenage girls