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Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green - Softcover

Flora Thompson

 
9780140117561: Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140117563 ISBN 13: 9780140117561
Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

Containing "Lark Rise", "Over to Candleford" and "Candleford Green", this is the story of the relationships between a hamlet, a village and a small market town. The book is based on the author's own experiences and chronicles May Day celebrations and the daily lives of craftsmen.

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About the Author

Born in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, Flora Thompson left school at 14 to work in the local post office. She married young, and wrote mass-market fiction to help support her increasing family. In her 60s she published the semi-autobiographical trilogy combined as LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD (1945). RICHARD MABEY is the author of some thirty books, including Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale, Beechcombings: the narratives of Trees, the ground-breaking and best-selling "cultural flora" Flora Britannica, and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His recent memoir Nature Cure was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Independent, the Guardian, Resurgence and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He lives in Norfolk, in the Waveney Valley.

About the Author

Phillip Mallett is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.

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Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0140117563
ISBN 13 
9780140117561
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
544