Lark Rise (58) by Flora Thompson

'You are going to be loved by people you've never seen and never will see' a gypsy tells Laura, the central character in Flora Thompson's lightly fictionalized memoir of her childhood in rural Oxfordshire during the last dec ades of the nineteenth century. It was a prediction that turned out to be true.

Lark rise, and it's sequels Over to Candleford and Candleford green are unique both for the magical quality of the writing and for the background of the author. While most other countryside writers of the period were comfortably middle-class, this record of a vanishing world came from the daughter of a labourer. Lark Rise is rich in practical detail, yet it is a poetic picture of life too for it evokes a countryside before mechanization, and where in late summer 'the ripened cornfields rippled up to the doorsteps of the cottages, and the hamlet became an island in a sea of dark gold'.

Series:Slightly Foxed Editions
Format:Hardback 328 pages
Publisher:Slightly Foxed Editions
Imprint:Slightly Foxed Editions
ISBN:9781910898666
Published:1 Mar 2022
Classifications:Memoirs, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Dimensions:170 x 110 (mm)