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    Lark Rise
    Lark Rise
    Lark Rise
    Audiobook9 hours

    Lark Rise

    Written by Flora Thompson

    Narrated by Karen Cass

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen "old Sally," whose grandfather built the house she lived in before the enclosure of the heathland, children's games, the interaction of village and gentry, and the way in which the seasons governed life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings
    Release dateJul 1, 2019
    ISBN9781407982533
    Lark Rise
    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
      A lovely look at the old times read so well!
    • 5/5
      Such a gentle read with lots of insight into daily life in the 1880s.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful book beautifully read, a lifetime favourite brought to new life.