John Ward

Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Moment of War (1993)

I first read Cider with Rosie at school and enjoyed it, identifying with the author's portrayal of childhood, I suppose. When I re-read it as an adult, and a father, I was overwhelmed by the yearning nostalgia of Lee's prose. But there is no mawkish sentimentality here, no idyll. In places there ...