Laurie Lee

[Jhawk]

I love laurie Lee. .. who else writes like that?

[kev67]

I have only five books in my Good reads "lyrical" shelf: apart from Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning I have Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and Moby Dick by Herman Melville. But I would not say any of those writers wrote quite like Laurie Lee.

Maybe Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson would be up your street, although I have not read it myself.

[Jhawk]

I've read Lark Rise to Candleford - but Laurie Lee has a way of writing that no one else seems to match (for me). Thanks for suggestions though

[prendrelemick]

You are right. No one writes quite like him. Lee's style is natural and effortless - and simple - it is his true style. Others may use the same techniques, but you can sense their creative effort, and often need effort to follow them.

You could try, Nabokov's Lolita - different subject matter- he describes different things - but similar feel.