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Lark Rise to Candleford #4
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In her sequel to 'Lark Rise to Candleford' Flora Thompson tells us of her time 'beyond Candleford Green' in Hampshire at the turn of the 19th century. This edition includes a map of the area and historical notes on the people and places she encountered, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw.
176 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1991
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Flora Thompson
37 books94 followersFlora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
Flora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907. Not long after, in 1911, she won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion for a 300-word essay about Jane Austen.[6] She later wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles. She was a keen self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986.
Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and which were published soon after. She wrote a sequel Heatherley which was published posthumously. The books are a fictionalised, if autobiographical, social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century and are now considered minor classics.
Flora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907. Not long after, in 1911, she won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion for a 300-word essay about Jane Austen.[6] She later wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles. She was a keen self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986.
Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and which were published soon after. She wrote a sequel Heatherley which was published posthumously. The books are a fictionalised, if autobiographical, social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century and are now considered minor classics.
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October 18, 2021
Yo sabía que este libro me iba a encantar porque la Trilogia de Candleford me enamoró.
Me enamoró la historia y la forma de contarla. Y claro, esta no podía ser menos porque es la segunda parte, así que el éxito estaba asegurado.
Si en la #TrilogiadeCandleford nos contaba la infancia y juventud de Laura (Flora), aquí nos va a contar su vida adulta en Heatherley desde su llegada allí para ser la nueva encargada de la oficina postal llevando a cabo todas las labores relacionadas con el correo y el telégrafo.
Un libro delicado y delicioso para saborear y disfrutar.
Una escritura sosegada, unas descripciones minuciosas y exquisitas de los paisajes y gentes de la Inglaterra rural victoriana, no sólo de sus costumbres diarias sino de su carácter en esa época conformando un estudio sociológico y costumbrista maravilloso.
Un viaje a la Inglaterra rural victoriana para disfrutar de una lectura tranquila , minuciosa y delicada en la que se aprecia el amor a la naturaleza. No busquéis acción ni tramas elaboradas. Es una lectura relajada que se disfruta por lo que cuenta y por la paz que transmite.
Maravillosa Flora
Me enamoró la historia y la forma de contarla. Y claro, esta no podía ser menos porque es la segunda parte, así que el éxito estaba asegurado.
Si en la #TrilogiadeCandleford nos contaba la infancia y juventud de Laura (Flora), aquí nos va a contar su vida adulta en Heatherley desde su llegada allí para ser la nueva encargada de la oficina postal llevando a cabo todas las labores relacionadas con el correo y el telégrafo.
Un libro delicado y delicioso para saborear y disfrutar.
Una escritura sosegada, unas descripciones minuciosas y exquisitas de los paisajes y gentes de la Inglaterra rural victoriana, no sólo de sus costumbres diarias sino de su carácter en esa época conformando un estudio sociológico y costumbrista maravilloso.
Un viaje a la Inglaterra rural victoriana para disfrutar de una lectura tranquila , minuciosa y delicada en la que se aprecia el amor a la naturaleza. No busquéis acción ni tramas elaboradas. Es una lectura relajada que se disfruta por lo que cuenta y por la paz que transmite.
Maravillosa Flora
October 8, 2021
My cup of tea
May 26, 2022
Heatherley es una lectura que te hace sentir en casa desde las primeras páginas; relajada y cómoda. Acompañar a Laura en su nuevo trabajo en la oficina de correos y telégrafos de Heatherley puede parecer a priori poco emocionante, pero no siempre necesitamos acción.
Era la primera vez que leía a Flora Thompson y no será la última; algo me dice que la Trilogía de Candleford ocupará pronto un espacio en mis estanterías. Y lo hará porque me ha gustado el estilo relajado de su autora y su capacidad para describir, meticulosamente a veces, esos momentos cotidianos que en su conjunto dibujan el día a día de Laura.
Descubrir a los habitantes de Heatherley a través de las observaciones de Laura o las conversaciones con esta te mantiene entretenida la primera mitad del libro. También se disfrutan mucho las descripciones del entorno gracias a los pocos pero tan preciados paseos en soledad de Laura, y los recuerdos de infancia a los que estos la transportan.
Es una pena que esa sensación de confort que me han proporcionado los dos primeros tercios del libro, se haya apagado ligeramente en el último. El hecho de que este se centre más en los hechos históricos que marcaron la vida la Inglaterra rural de la época que en la propia Laura, me ha distraído un poco, debo reconocerlo.
Confortable.
Era la primera vez que leía a Flora Thompson y no será la última; algo me dice que la Trilogía de Candleford ocupará pronto un espacio en mis estanterías. Y lo hará porque me ha gustado el estilo relajado de su autora y su capacidad para describir, meticulosamente a veces, esos momentos cotidianos que en su conjunto dibujan el día a día de Laura.
Descubrir a los habitantes de Heatherley a través de las observaciones de Laura o las conversaciones con esta te mantiene entretenida la primera mitad del libro. También se disfrutan mucho las descripciones del entorno gracias a los pocos pero tan preciados paseos en soledad de Laura, y los recuerdos de infancia a los que estos la transportan.
Es una pena que esa sensación de confort que me han proporcionado los dos primeros tercios del libro, se haya apagado ligeramente en el último. El hecho de que este se centre más en los hechos históricos que marcaron la vida la Inglaterra rural de la época que en la propia Laura, me ha distraído un poco, debo reconocerlo.
Confortable.
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June 9, 2010This is a charming sequel to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford.In my opinion, it is a more interesting read. The protagonist, Laura, works in an English country post office that is frequented by literary celebrities of the late nineteenth century. Her descriptions of figures such as George Bernard Shaw and Sir Author Conan Doyle are delightful. Since the author (Flora Thompson)really worked at a country post office, she is describing experiences from her own life.
December 21, 2020
Like a slightly disappointing ‘season 2’ to your favourite show.
Sadly it lacked the warmth and engagement in lark rise to candleford.
Less interesting, less engaging, long rambling sentences at times.
I only read to the end because I was invested in ‘Laura’ and interested in her story, but it’s wasn’t a page turner.
I’d read her first books again, but not this one.
Sadly it lacked the warmth and engagement in lark rise to candleford.
Less interesting, less engaging, long rambling sentences at times.
I only read to the end because I was invested in ‘Laura’ and interested in her story, but it’s wasn’t a page turner.
I’d read her first books again, but not this one.
December 18, 2025
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
10 out of 10
What a joy this magnifique book is to read, especially coming in the footsteps of the cryptic, dystopian, bizarre, otherworldly, outré The Crying of Lot 49 by the recluse, acclaimed Thomas Pynchon - http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/05/t... - and considering that this simple, accessible, classic, conservative – surely long discarded and considered passé by many readers – majestic, enchanting style is the one this reader loves best, offering the occasion for ‘Happiness on very little’, as there is the case for many of the inhabitants of the hamlet that is at the center of this narrative, which comes in three installments, as one of the best loved trilogies of British literature…
This is a sublime description of the countryside in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century, during the celebrated – in the book they prepare for the Jubilee – queen Victoria – an age during which the under signed would have liked to live, if summoned to make the choice, albeit not as one of the figures in this narrative, not the poor ones anyway, but preferably as one of those lords in possession of a castle, or at the very least a mansion, something like what we see in Downton Abbey, but with less financial, servants and other trouble – when almost all of the men and women who live in the hamlet of juniper Hill (and most likely in most other country places) are quite settled in their ways and do not wish for a change, a revolution – as tends to be the case in this day and age of inequality, but also a young generation that supports socialist or even communist ideas, unaware of that they mean, as we are, those who have been born behind the Iron curtain, beneficiaries of the system brought in by the Soviets…
Not everything is paradisiacal in the hamlet, that is obvious, the bucolic life though does have attractions and made this reader think of his experience when working in tourism and taking clients from the USA – mostly – to live in villages and experience a trip back in time – although most have had quite modern facilities, there were some with an outhouse and conditions closer to the middle ages and what people in Juniper hill had – and later on in the small town of Rosenau, where modernity would sit close to barbarity and my house was on the edge of the forest and thus next to the Wild (indeed, they filmed for the mega production Cold Mountain about three hundred meters from the house, for some of the scenes).
“A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.” Said a very clever man, H.L. Mencken, and this is the case for this story, wherein almost all made just one shilling per week – which was obviously not the same value as today – and anywhere else – on a personal note, living in a gated community, I observed yesterday a new Porsche SUV, parked nearby, in the middle of a pandemic that had wiped out so much wealth – only to hear the spouse stating maliciously (as always) that people in this community are doing very well – the implication was that her husband is a loser and that stealing, as many if not most of these ‘rich goodfellas’ are, would be acceptable, if it comes with a shining new car and the rather flimsy ‘affluence’…positive psychology studies demonstrate that it is much more important to be ‘time affluent’ for instance and that Hedonic Adaptation destroys quite soon the pleasure brought by material gain…the Dalai Lama has entered a supermarket and said …’wow, so many things I do not need ‘hence this Buddhist, or Stoic approach works better.
Rituals of sacrifice, work, events in the life of the men and women are described with divine talent, the stuffing and killing of the poor pigs, the bacon which is hung in a special place, the meat which is given to others, first of all to those who had given sides in their turn, the lack of consideration for the animals – the hunting of foxes is mentioned, poor animals that are torn apart by apparently nice dogs – milk is a rare luxury…indeed, so is water, for it has to be brought from a distance, never mind the running water that Laura, the heroine of the novel, would enjoy so much once she would move, at the tender age of fourteen and a half, together with hot water for a bath…initially, Laura was supposed to become a nurse – and she would be quite upset when she learns she does not fit the requirements – while her brother, Edmund, is meant to be apprenticed to a carpenter, which seems to be a cleaner profession..
As everybody – more or less – has enough to eat, in order to obtain other necessities there Is a need for other sources – or to use the Stoic precept which insists one need to ‘desire only what one already has’ – and they rely in the hamlet on things sent back home by the girls, daughters that are in service, work in the homes or kitchens of richer people and get some second hand clothes and other things to send back home – if one is a cook, one can ask for fifty pounds a year, maybe five more or threaten with resignation, while other servants get much less, but still, ascetic girls manage to send about half their wages back to their mothers, living on very little…the dream of one of the characters is ‘if only I had a pound every week’
As for the aforementioned precept that money – especially those spent on quite useless gadgets most of the time…what is spend on experiences, travel (if possible during a pandemic) provides much better results in terms of increased wellbeing – do not ensure happiness, this is not the case for those who are very poor…for those living in squalor, more money brings in much more happiness, but there are established levels, for instance, in America, it was studied and it was set at about 60 – 70, 000 dollars per year, depending on the state, it is much easier to have a smaller income in Alabama than in San Francisco, the latter is the place where one million dollars buys a one bedroom flat in certain areas…
There are also vagrants in the countryside near Candleford, in Oxfordshire, where all the events take place and they try to sell anything, shoelaces or Lavender…the morals are different from what we have today and if there is tolerance to some degree for children born out of wedlock, men and women still do not want that disgrace to happen to their daughters…small birds, sparrows are caught with a net and put into a pudding, or if fewer caught they are roasted on the fire – one is tempted to say how cruel these people are, but if the pandemic strikes harder, with a second worse wave, who knows what we have to resort to…after all, they say that in North Korea, another communist paradise that socialists and left wingers should take into consideration when they promote those dangerous doctrines, they eat bark…
Eventually, Laura would move to Candleford Green, a place that seems as different as America would be from our lands…but wait, America is now ruled by a savage, has rebellion on the streets and does not look like the Eden we dreamed about…indeed, if I envied my sister for being a doctor in Chicago, now we have to worry about her…
10 out of 10
What a joy this magnifique book is to read, especially coming in the footsteps of the cryptic, dystopian, bizarre, otherworldly, outré The Crying of Lot 49 by the recluse, acclaimed Thomas Pynchon - http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/05/t... - and considering that this simple, accessible, classic, conservative – surely long discarded and considered passé by many readers – majestic, enchanting style is the one this reader loves best, offering the occasion for ‘Happiness on very little’, as there is the case for many of the inhabitants of the hamlet that is at the center of this narrative, which comes in three installments, as one of the best loved trilogies of British literature…
This is a sublime description of the countryside in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century, during the celebrated – in the book they prepare for the Jubilee – queen Victoria – an age during which the under signed would have liked to live, if summoned to make the choice, albeit not as one of the figures in this narrative, not the poor ones anyway, but preferably as one of those lords in possession of a castle, or at the very least a mansion, something like what we see in Downton Abbey, but with less financial, servants and other trouble – when almost all of the men and women who live in the hamlet of juniper Hill (and most likely in most other country places) are quite settled in their ways and do not wish for a change, a revolution – as tends to be the case in this day and age of inequality, but also a young generation that supports socialist or even communist ideas, unaware of that they mean, as we are, those who have been born behind the Iron curtain, beneficiaries of the system brought in by the Soviets…
Not everything is paradisiacal in the hamlet, that is obvious, the bucolic life though does have attractions and made this reader think of his experience when working in tourism and taking clients from the USA – mostly – to live in villages and experience a trip back in time – although most have had quite modern facilities, there were some with an outhouse and conditions closer to the middle ages and what people in Juniper hill had – and later on in the small town of Rosenau, where modernity would sit close to barbarity and my house was on the edge of the forest and thus next to the Wild (indeed, they filmed for the mega production Cold Mountain about three hundred meters from the house, for some of the scenes).
“A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.” Said a very clever man, H.L. Mencken, and this is the case for this story, wherein almost all made just one shilling per week – which was obviously not the same value as today – and anywhere else – on a personal note, living in a gated community, I observed yesterday a new Porsche SUV, parked nearby, in the middle of a pandemic that had wiped out so much wealth – only to hear the spouse stating maliciously (as always) that people in this community are doing very well – the implication was that her husband is a loser and that stealing, as many if not most of these ‘rich goodfellas’ are, would be acceptable, if it comes with a shining new car and the rather flimsy ‘affluence’…positive psychology studies demonstrate that it is much more important to be ‘time affluent’ for instance and that Hedonic Adaptation destroys quite soon the pleasure brought by material gain…the Dalai Lama has entered a supermarket and said …’wow, so many things I do not need ‘hence this Buddhist, or Stoic approach works better.
Rituals of sacrifice, work, events in the life of the men and women are described with divine talent, the stuffing and killing of the poor pigs, the bacon which is hung in a special place, the meat which is given to others, first of all to those who had given sides in their turn, the lack of consideration for the animals – the hunting of foxes is mentioned, poor animals that are torn apart by apparently nice dogs – milk is a rare luxury…indeed, so is water, for it has to be brought from a distance, never mind the running water that Laura, the heroine of the novel, would enjoy so much once she would move, at the tender age of fourteen and a half, together with hot water for a bath…initially, Laura was supposed to become a nurse – and she would be quite upset when she learns she does not fit the requirements – while her brother, Edmund, is meant to be apprenticed to a carpenter, which seems to be a cleaner profession..
As everybody – more or less – has enough to eat, in order to obtain other necessities there Is a need for other sources – or to use the Stoic precept which insists one need to ‘desire only what one already has’ – and they rely in the hamlet on things sent back home by the girls, daughters that are in service, work in the homes or kitchens of richer people and get some second hand clothes and other things to send back home – if one is a cook, one can ask for fifty pounds a year, maybe five more or threaten with resignation, while other servants get much less, but still, ascetic girls manage to send about half their wages back to their mothers, living on very little…the dream of one of the characters is ‘if only I had a pound every week’
As for the aforementioned precept that money – especially those spent on quite useless gadgets most of the time…what is spend on experiences, travel (if possible during a pandemic) provides much better results in terms of increased wellbeing – do not ensure happiness, this is not the case for those who are very poor…for those living in squalor, more money brings in much more happiness, but there are established levels, for instance, in America, it was studied and it was set at about 60 – 70, 000 dollars per year, depending on the state, it is much easier to have a smaller income in Alabama than in San Francisco, the latter is the place where one million dollars buys a one bedroom flat in certain areas…
There are also vagrants in the countryside near Candleford, in Oxfordshire, where all the events take place and they try to sell anything, shoelaces or Lavender…the morals are different from what we have today and if there is tolerance to some degree for children born out of wedlock, men and women still do not want that disgrace to happen to their daughters…small birds, sparrows are caught with a net and put into a pudding, or if fewer caught they are roasted on the fire – one is tempted to say how cruel these people are, but if the pandemic strikes harder, with a second worse wave, who knows what we have to resort to…after all, they say that in North Korea, another communist paradise that socialists and left wingers should take into consideration when they promote those dangerous doctrines, they eat bark…
Eventually, Laura would move to Candleford Green, a place that seems as different as America would be from our lands…but wait, America is now ruled by a savage, has rebellion on the streets and does not look like the Eden we dreamed about…indeed, if I envied my sister for being a doctor in Chicago, now we have to worry about her…
February 4, 2015
I was very excited to read this because I loved the 'Lark Rise to Candleford' trilogy and tv show. I think this will very much interest people who also liked those. It wasn't a super exciting book but I really liked hearing more stories from 'Laura.' I actually wished it had gone on a little bit more. The introduction part about the research for the book was a little boring. Anyone who wants to know more about 'Laura' should give it a read!
August 24, 2017
I thoroughly enjoyed this insight into Laura's adult life and the snippets of social history woven into her tale. The love of nature and the natural world which enthralled her as a child continues to capture her thoughts and imagination. Her new location seems to absorb her and there is little reference to her family or life in Larkrise or Candleford.
February 8, 2016
After reading Larkrise trilogy thought this would be worth a read but it doesn't seem as atmospheric as Larkrise . we follow Laura into her new job away from home, but we hear she marries and has children but do not meet her "intended" or are party to the romance.
January 18, 2009
Not as good as Lark Rise to Candleford but an interesting follow on the 'Laura's' life
February 28, 2013
Loved the book as I love all of Flora Thompson's books
May 6, 2017
It often seemed more of a description than a story or a fictionalized biography.
September 19, 2019
More of Flora Thompson's beautiful work. Less well constructed than her Lark Rise trilogy but still a delight.
April 20, 2023
Candleford y Heatherly son lo más parecido que he sentido nunca a montarme en una máquina del tiempo y viajar al pasado. Porque no son novelas al uso, sino más bien un conjunto de recuerdos y descripciones de usos y costumbres ya desaparecidas y que se han quedado fosilizadas en estas memorias de Flora Thompson, que nos lleva a los últimos 10 años del siglo XIX, los momentos finales de la era victoriana. Para las flipadas por este período y su literatura, a mí estas obras me parecen de lectura obligatoria, porque Thompson no solo describe, sino que emociona.
En lo personal, disfruté más con su anterior Trilogía de Candleford, quizás porque se narra su infancia y paso a la adolescencia, y también su despedida de la casa de sus padres y su salida al mundo, y esos momentos siempre me dejan el corazón encogidito. Aquí, la vemos ya adulta, en su veintena, instalada en el ficticio pueblo de Heatherly, correspondiente en la realidad con Grayshott, donde Flora ejerció como trabajadora de la oficina de correos. El libro tiene altibajos, con momentos, a mi parecer, de excesiva descripción paisajística, pero otros sublimes en tanto que centrados en las emociones y vivencias íntimas de Laura/Flora y sus vecinos. En este sentido, hubiese agradecido más detalles en torno a Laura/Flora misma en cuestiones que no son mencionadas apenas en el libro: la relación con sus padres y hermano, cómo conoció a su marido, que ni siquiera vemos y no sabemos quién es, o incluso cómo fue su vida después de Heatherly.
Con todo, creo que lo importante es tomarse estas obras como lo que son: memorias costumbristas de la campiña inglesa. Vamos, lo que viene siendo mi mierda💜
En lo personal, disfruté más con su anterior Trilogía de Candleford, quizás porque se narra su infancia y paso a la adolescencia, y también su despedida de la casa de sus padres y su salida al mundo, y esos momentos siempre me dejan el corazón encogidito. Aquí, la vemos ya adulta, en su veintena, instalada en el ficticio pueblo de Heatherly, correspondiente en la realidad con Grayshott, donde Flora ejerció como trabajadora de la oficina de correos. El libro tiene altibajos, con momentos, a mi parecer, de excesiva descripción paisajística, pero otros sublimes en tanto que centrados en las emociones y vivencias íntimas de Laura/Flora y sus vecinos. En este sentido, hubiese agradecido más detalles en torno a Laura/Flora misma en cuestiones que no son mencionadas apenas en el libro: la relación con sus padres y hermano, cómo conoció a su marido, que ni siquiera vemos y no sabemos quién es, o incluso cómo fue su vida después de Heatherly.
Con todo, creo que lo importante es tomarse estas obras como lo que son: memorias costumbristas de la campiña inglesa. Vamos, lo que viene siendo mi mierda💜
June 26, 2021
I know the corner of Surrey that this book is set in, which added to my enjoyment of this semi-autobiographical tale of Laura/Flora’s time working in the Post Office at Grayshott (“Heatherley”) as the 19th century turned into the 20th.
There are some beautiful descriptions of the surrounding heathlands and local beauty spots as well as fascinating character studies of the people that Laura meets. What adds to the interest is the commentary on current events, lifestyle and fashion. The chapter “The New Century”, for example, relates the mood of the nation as the modern age was born: the elderly Queen Victoria would soon be followed by the first king most Britons would experience, and the people lived in hope that the Boer War would end, and that peace would prevail - interesting parallels with the present day.
There are some beautiful descriptions of the surrounding heathlands and local beauty spots as well as fascinating character studies of the people that Laura meets. What adds to the interest is the commentary on current events, lifestyle and fashion. The chapter “The New Century”, for example, relates the mood of the nation as the modern age was born: the elderly Queen Victoria would soon be followed by the first king most Britons would experience, and the people lived in hope that the Boer War would end, and that peace would prevail - interesting parallels with the present day.
April 9, 2025
Lovely book particularly to those familiar with the countryside around Liphook in Hampshire where it is set It is basically a series of vignettes describing the life of a post mistress - Laura not Flora but no doubt highly autobiographical - in late Victorian rural England St roughly the time of the Boer War. There are lots of nice details about social attitudes and day to day existence. You can tell it is autobiographical because as with life not all stories have an end. She befriends a brother and his sickly sister - romance looms but nothing comes of it. She moves away and marries someone else without that courting being mentioned. The sister gets an ideal job but probably dies young. Another couple are involved in a gruesome murder - but after the author has moved away. Dome might find that disappointing but it certainly assists us to think the account truthful.
January 14, 2021
This lovely sequel fits in perfectly with “Lark Rise”, without any of the choppy or experimental changes lost sequels usually have (think: Go Set a Watchman vs. To Kill a Mockingbird horror stories.) Refreshingly, this book embodies what I loved about “Lark Rise”: atmospheric descriptions, jaw-dropping twists, and thought-provoking insights. Thompson’s unique and iconic character-based anecdotal writing style immerses you in 1898-1900 Berkshire, UK.
March 11, 2024
Qué preciosidad de libro. Para leer con calma, poco a poco y disfrutarlo. La continuación de La trilogía de Candleford no defrauda ni un poquito. Laura tiene otras responsabilidades, pero sigue mirando la vida con los mismos ojos de quien ama la naturaleza y el páramo.
Y además nos describe las postrimerías de la vida rural de la Inglaterra victoriana, que dará paso ya al ruido y el ajetreo de la ciudad.
Al final hasta me ha caído una lagrimilla de emoción. ❤️
Y además nos describe las postrimerías de la vida rural de la Inglaterra victoriana, que dará paso ya al ruido y el ajetreo de la ciudad.
Al final hasta me ha caído una lagrimilla de emoción. ❤️
December 14, 2023
If you enjoyed Lark Rise to Candleford this is a must read. I put that down wishing there was more and to my great surprise, there was!
I do wish we learned more about her husband and what drew him to her. After watching Laura have almost no interest in the men around her it would be nice to see what drew her to the man she ended up marrying.
I do wish we learned more about her husband and what drew him to her. After watching Laura have almost no interest in the men around her it would be nice to see what drew her to the man she ended up marrying.
September 3, 2025
oasis
I generally read heavy crime and hard Sci-Fi very dark and complex. This was like coming upon a beautiful glade in a very dense dark forest where I can relax and rest and take a calm time to think about and appreciate the beauty of nature and the fascinating history Of our society
I generally read heavy crime and hard Sci-Fi very dark and complex. This was like coming upon a beautiful glade in a very dense dark forest where I can relax and rest and take a calm time to think about and appreciate the beauty of nature and the fascinating history Of our society
December 10, 2021
Continuación de la vida de Laura en la campiña británica, trabajando en la oficina de Correos. El final de su juventud y el final del siglo XIX y la época victoriana.
September 22, 2024
“Nunca había tenido que enfrentarse a la gran oscuridad, al silencioso abismo que se abre entre los muertos y los vivos.”
January 18, 2026
4,5 ⭐
Me encanta como escribe Flora. Esas descripciones tan meticulosas y que hacen que te transporten totalmente a ese lugar y a esa época.
Una maravilla.
Me encanta como escribe Flora. Esas descripciones tan meticulosas y que hacen que te transporten totalmente a ese lugar y a esa época.
Una maravilla.
March 8, 2020
I am so pleased I discovered the existence of this book through John Owen's website. I have long been a fan of Flora Thompson ever since I read "Lark Rise to Candleford" when I was 16 for English A Level. I recently reread Lark Rise to Candleford, and was left wanting more........so it was good to discover this sequel (maybe should be called "Candleford to Heatherley" !)
Flora writes with her same keen perception of places and observations of people. What I love about her writing is that she transports you back to that time - so also she is writing about society 120 years ago, as a reader I feel right there with her at that point in time. Emily Dickinson once wrote "Forever is composed of nows" - and as a reader i kind of get that foreverness through the pages and can almost sense what it was like to live in those times, yet also related to Flora's chronicling of the passing time and the changes it brings..
In this book she comes full circle in many ways (have tor had it to the end to see what I mean), and the reader is more satisfied to know what became of her after Candleford. It was good to learn a little more about her brother's life (Edmund).
I have just ordered Peverell Papers. She inspires me to appreciate natural and natural beauty - something someone like myself having been brought up in a big city can lose.
Flora writes with her same keen perception of places and observations of people. What I love about her writing is that she transports you back to that time - so also she is writing about society 120 years ago, as a reader I feel right there with her at that point in time. Emily Dickinson once wrote "Forever is composed of nows" - and as a reader i kind of get that foreverness through the pages and can almost sense what it was like to live in those times, yet also related to Flora's chronicling of the passing time and the changes it brings..
In this book she comes full circle in many ways (have tor had it to the end to see what I mean), and the reader is more satisfied to know what became of her after Candleford. It was good to learn a little more about her brother's life (Edmund).
I have just ordered Peverell Papers. She inspires me to appreciate natural and natural beauty - something someone like myself having been brought up in a big city can lose.
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