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Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford
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Lark Rise to Candleford

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An autobiography of "Laura" - as the author calls herself - which describes in detail her delightful life in a country village. Her self-sufficient world of farm labourers and craftsmen working to the rhythms of the seasons and enjoying their traditional festivities is preserved for readers in this interesting and entertaining narrative. 
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Release dateDec 4, 2018
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Lark Rise to Candleford
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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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This beautifully written book powerfully evokes a time and a way of life that has passed but is still recent enough to seem familiar. Thompson evokes both the privations and the quiet satisfactions of English rural life. Different in style but similar in other ways is Ronald Blythe's Akenfield - he captures a later period closer to our own times but many of the scenes described by Thompson are echoed in his book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A Classic account of life in earlier times. Well written, not dry or boring, it is the standard I use to measure all other historical memoirs.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Lark Rise does not have a plot. If that's what you care about most, it's not a good idea to try it, I don't think -- and I hear it's nothing like the tv series, Lark Rise to Candleford. It's somewhat lacking in terms of characters, too: mostly there are thumbnail sketches of characters.

    The writing, however, is somehow absorbing enough -- at least to me -- that it's worth reading anyway. It's a very idealised view of quotidian village life in England during Queen Victoria's reign. Flora Thompson continually states that these people knew how to happy on very little, and details their simple pleasures and the pains of their poverty as if the latter allowed them to enjoy the former in some special way we can't touch now. It's quite a one-sided view, though since this is supposedly more or less autobiography, there's a truth in it too.

    The whole book is basically nostalgia trip to an older, golden-seeming existence. I don't know why I enjoyed it so much, really, and I wondered if I would even make it through the whole book when I first realised what it was like. But there's really something sweet and enchanting about it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I first thought this was a novel but after about a hundred pages of entertaining scene setting realised that is was vaguely autobiographical, and after another hundred pages of engaging description and nothing much happening realised that was all there was. A pleasant enough but idealised view of rural life in Oxfordshire ant the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. More than a bit saccharine and cloying. I agreed to read this for my book group and I am glad we only decided on the first book of the series as I had had enough after two hundred pages and found the last fifty a bit of a chore.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    These memoirs or anecdotes of English village life in the 1880s were enjoyable but lacked a cohesiveness that I had expected from the TV adaptation of "Lark Rise to Candleford". Perhaps that structure or plot is more evident in the other two books of the trilogy...
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Flora Thompson is best remembered for three (or four) memoirs she wrote, Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), Candleford Green (1943) and pothumously published Still glides the stream (1948. The first three volumes were also printed in one volume entitled Lark rise to Candleford.I thought this was a novel, but it turned out to be more like a work of social history of late-Victorian village life. Clearly, Flora Thompson doesn't have the skill of her contemporaries Thomas Hardy or Hugh Walpole. Lark Rise is well-written but rather boring.There isn't such an awful lot to write about village life, so at 247 pages the book seems a bit too long, with some information repeated. After about 150 pages it became a bit of a drag.

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