Lauri Lee is a poet and writer from England. It's about being a child in a poor family during WWI. The family was abandoned by the father. Eight children and their mother living in a big house in the country. It's all about his brothers and sisters going to school. Getting meals together and the sleeping arrangements. Very detailed and poetic. It's light reading.
Lee was in Spain during the Spanish Civil War but not as a fighter, just as an observer, surviving by playing his violin on the streets for handouts. There are two books about this period he wrote which are brilliant.
