![]() ![]() ![]() There her eyes are opened to wider horizons. Laura attends the village school and leaves at the age of fourteen to work for the postmistress of the village of Candleford. Whilst much is to be admired and cherished about her community, when she looks back on it as an adult she doesn’t shy away from describing hardship too. An intelligent and enquiring child, she is always attentive to the way of life around her – the lives of a farming community and nature as it transforms through the seasons, their working lives together and their celebrations. Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 ) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford. ![]() Laura Timms spends her childhood in a country hamlet called Lark Rise. This edition contains all three books – Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green with an introduction by Bill Gallagher, screenwriter of the hugely popular BBC television adaptation. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford ( Penguin Modern Classics ed. Lark Rise to Candleford captures a piece of social history in this ever popular fictional account of an English rural upbringing between the wars. ![]()
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