Presents a portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story tells about three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town. It chronicles May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen, and friends and relations.
Presents the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town. This trilogy, containing Lark Rise , Over To Candleford and Candleford Green , is a portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century.
Laura is now fourteen-and-a-half and setting off for a new life in the village of Candleford Green, as assistant to the clever, dapper Miss Dorcas Lane, who runs the Post Office. There are new people entering Laura's life: the curmudgeonly old servant Zillah, the grand Sir Thomas, the Irish harvesters and the ardent young gamekeeper Philip White.
A story of friendships, rivalries and a young girl finding her place in the world. It evokes the passage from childhood to adolescence and a society on the cusp of transformation.
In the rural hamlet of Lark Rise and the market town of Candleford, life is marked by the pattern of the seasons and the customs of the countryside. Seen through the eyes of a young girl, Laura, this work portrays May Day celebrations and forgotten children's games, harvest times and traditional songs and farmworkers and craftsmen.
Dewhurst has adapted the Flora Thompson trilogy into two plays. Lark Rise which erects the first day of harvest from sunrise to sunset and, Candleford , which depicts a day in midwinter - to give a lively picture of typical country life of the period with music and songs.
Flora Thompson's lost sequel to her classic 'Lark Rise to Candleford' picks up her story a year after she left Candleford Green and arrived in Grayshott, Hampshire, to take her first permanent job. She completed the typescript of this book, but never submitted it for publication herself.