The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

Containing the whole trilogy, namely Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green. Thompson's trilogy is one of the best-loved of all books about the English countryside. The past it describes remains perhaps the most vivid, detailed and immediate portrait of country life ever written. Thompson was a cottage child, born in 1878 and brought up in poverty in a tiny Oxfordshire haml;et of Juniper (renamed Lark Rise in the book.) Flora appears as Laura in the book. In the 1880s the countryside was on the brink of unalterable change, and the march of progress would soon wipe away the unique idiosyncrasies of a centuries-old way of life. But Flora Thompson was born in time to capture it before it vanished for ever, with her unforgettable gallery of characters, and her unsentimental but deeply affectionate account of the humble details of the life she knew...