Lark Rise to Candleford A Trilogy: Lark Rise - Over to Candleford - Candleford Green

Biography / Memoir

By: Flora Thompson and HJ Massingham

544 pages, Illus

Publisher: Penguin Books

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Classic observations of village life.

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The story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - this immortal trilogy is based on Flora Thompson's experiences during childhood and youth. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, friends and relations - all painted with the gaiety and freshness of observation that makes this a precise and endearing portrayal of country life at the end of the last century.

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Born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, Flora Thompson left school at 14 to work in the local post office. She married young, and wrote mass-market fiction to help support her increasing family. In her 60s she published the semi-autobiographical trilogy combined as LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD (1945).

Biography / Memoir

By: Flora Thompson and HJ Massingham

544 pages, Illus

Publisher: Penguin Books

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