What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Laurie LeeI was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
Laurie LeeBut 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.
Laurie Lee