SOURCE: An interview in Caliban XIII, n.s., Vol. XII, No. 1, January, 1976, pp. 149-60.

In the excerpted interview below, Lee discusses various topics, including life in the Cotswolds, his childhood, modern life, and the concept of literary style.

[Nicole and Françoise Cavalerie]: The Cotswolds.

[Lee]: My Mother's family have lived in the Cotswolds for six or seven hundred years. They were farmers and lived by the river Severn. Then they moved up into the hills. Some of my uncles were foresters, others horse-dealers, some coachmen. My Grandfather is my only authentic, physical link with the past (all the other stories I have heard derive from rumour or custom). He was a coachman at Berkeley Castle but at the end of his life was running a public house in Sheepscombe called "The Plough" which still stands there. He was a great man of the old tradition, with huge...