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    Over to Candleford
    Over to Candleford
    Over to Candleford
    Audiobook5 hours

    Over to Candleford

    Written by Flora Thompson

    Narrated by Karen Cass

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    About this audiobook

    In the little hamlet of Lark Rise times are changing and Laura is growing up. Although she must attend the nearby village school, she would far rather read and make up stories in her head.

    Real-life excitement comes, however, when she and her beloved younger brother Edmund are allowed to walk on their own to the grand market town of Candleford to stay with their relatives one summer. There, Laura discovers the joys of the shops, the ways of boy-talk with her cousins and the secret world of 'Bookworms Ltd' with her Uncle Tom, before an offer arrives that will determine her future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings
    Release dateJul 1, 2019
    ISBN9781407982571
    Over to Candleford
    Author

    Flora Thompson

    Flora Thompson was born in 1876 in Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire, the rural hamlet that she describes in Lark Rise. She was a bookish child who dreamt of being a writer. Her mother taught her to read before she started at the village school. She left school at fourteen to work as an assistant postmistress. She married in 1903 and moved to Bournemouth where she started writing her famous trilogy in her 60s. The three books were published between 1939 and 1943. Thompson died in 1947.

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    • 5/5
      Beautifully read beloved old classic. This observant, loving memoir of English rural life in the 1880s has nothing to do with the trashily dramatised TV version! Listen and enjoy.
    • 5/5
      Read in such a calm way by a Brilliant reader. She makes the words jump off the page. A lovely book about past times. Defiantly something to put on your list.