Joanna Trollope’s love for Cider With Rosie

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In this clip from Radio 4’s Open Book series The Book I’d Never Lend, Joanna Trollope speaks of her devotion to Lee’s first memoir, a book she says she read obsessively for 15 years. For Trollope, Cider With Rosie is a chronicle of a world that was about to disappear, not only through the introduction of the motor car but also because it takes place on the eve of the Great War.