Lark Rise to Candleford
by Flora Thompson
Taste attributes: biographydocumentaryhistoricalslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricatelinearemotive & stirringcoming of agesocial commentaryhuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeA grounded biography that is unhurried, weighty and inventive. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: very slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.3 / 5
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About This Book
Published in one volume, Flora Thompson's trilogy of life in rural England in the 1890's -- Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green. The childhood and adolescence of an English country girl growing up in a world of privation and poverty that was at that time taken for granted. The descriptions of a long-ago way of life are eloquent, moving, and full of sorrow for that which has been lost forever.
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- Author
- Flora Thompson
- Published
- 1945
- Pages
- 544
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- Open Library
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