Laurie Lee calls this a 'kind of scrapbook of first loves and obsessions' Part 1 covers some early recollections, Part 2 contains certain abstract considerations of love and the senses, while Part 3 is simply devoted to a series of voyages He doesn't please by cheating When he travels, he sees the dark as well as the light when he ponders childhood or parenthood, he recognises the harsher strands in experience as well as the joys The way he weaves such perceptions into his instinctive enjoyment of life makes the tapestry of experience more profound and more complete