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Laurie lee novel cider with7/6/2023 ![]() Typical of the tone of the early correspondence are the author’s lines to his daughter written from Germany just after Christmas in 1960. Yasmin was 19 when she discovered the identity of her real father, and many of the letters are “tinged with a sadness”, according to her daughter. Laurie admits he also once covertly visited her art college in Worthing, standing outside just to see her,” David told the Observer. My mother had initially walked out, after seeing him inside, but he followed her out. “In the first letters they talk about meeting at the Queen Anne pub in Fulham, London, which Laurie liked. ![]() “They were all in a drawer inside the chest … When I opened it up, I was amazed how many letters there were by just how much they had written to each other,” said Clio David, a film-maker who lives in London. ![]() They came to light when Yasmin’s daughter, Clio, was sorting through her late mother’s possessions last year. The unseen letters date from the 1960s, when they first met up as adults, until Lee’s death in 1996. ![]()
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