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Just Remember - This Is Really A History Book! Fans of the BBC adaptation should give this a wide berth if they are expecting witty tales of honest farm folks told in the style of Catherine Cookson. For example, the Pratt Sisters whose ludicrous antics and matching outfits took up so much of the BBC series, have little more than one page in the whole of this book! Miss Lane and her post office does not appear until the final 3rd of the compilation. There is no forbidden romance with the local Squire or any tension between him and his wife. Dawn French's... more info
Stunning ! This trilogy is just stunning. I didn't want it to end, it's one of those books you savour, and you want it to go on forever. It's one of my all time favourites. I also warmly recommend the stories of Joan Kent, she is in the same league as Flora Thompson. Her "Haywains & Cherry Ale" and "Lamplight on Cottage Loaves" are wonderful, and they relieve any Flora Thompson withdrawal symptoms once you finish 'Lark Rise to Candleford'.
A beautful book about a 'beautiful time' Life was hard in those days but it was beautiful: well it is nice to think it was anyhow. A lovely book that wanders reminising through the author's childhood, told with the clarity as if it had all just happened yesterday. Captivatingly written and extremely evocative. A 'must read' book: close your eyes and dream what English rural life used to be like. Enjoy!
Returning to my own past I first read this gem as a set book in school at around age 14, a London-born child educated in the City. The details of it never left me, 'Laura's' description of hamlet life in the 1880's were my benchmark for how poor honest country folk lived in those days, I could always refer to my recollections of the book, I was fascinated by the facts.
I finished re-reading it tonight, 37 years later and am still enchanted by the writer's simple and straightforward style and the vivid descriptions with such... more info
