aka Cider with Rosie. First published in the US as Edge Of Day: Boyhood in the West of England. It is the first book of a trilogy consisting of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). [from Editors' Preface] "Laurie Lee's reminiscences of his childhood in England, The Edge of the Day, portray village life in the Cotswolds, a region west of London and north of Bath, during the era following World War I...."