Book cover for Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford

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09 July 2020
704 pages
9781529038064
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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Lark Rise to Candleford is remarkable for its celebratory realism. It neither romanticises poverty nor underplays it
Thompson’s timing was perfect. The Second World War was looming and Englishness was being redefined in the face of modernity.