Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) by Flora Thompson
Book review by Sue R:
Flora Thompson wrote the three books which were published in one volume in 1945: Lark Rise(1939), Over to Candleford(1941) and Candleford Green(1943). The books are autobiographical in content. Laura, the main character, lives in a hamlet like Flora did, on the Oxford-Northamptonshire border; they both go to work in a post office in a nearby town and both wrote poetry.
The setting is the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a period of transition ...