‘You are the one spark in my life’: Laurie Lee’s loving letters to secret daughter
Jul 03, 2021
3 minutes
Adoring, hidden letters exchanged between the Cider With Rosie author Laurie Lee and the painter Yasmin David, his secret daughter from an illicit affair with a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, have been unearthed in lockdown.
The emotional correspondence, found concealed in an old chest in the David family home in Devon, is full of the pair’s delight at finding each other and contains moving details about their efforts to build a relationship.
The unseen letters date from the 1960s, when they first met up as adults, until Lee’s death in 1996. They
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