Candleford Green, Flora Thompson
Candleford Green, Flora Thompson
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Candleford Green

Author: Flora Thompson

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 07/01/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Now in her early teens, Laura moves to the village of Candleford Green to work in the post office under the tutelage of her cousin Dorcas Lane, and grow into womanhood. In Candleford Green, new ideas and new ways are coming in from the outside world, from Dorcas's famous telegraph machine to the scandalous sight of ladies riding bicycles. There are also 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. As Laura adjusts to this world, the traditions and ways of her country childhood seem further and further away – and a different future beckons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pamela on October 30, 2013

What a gift Thompson has bequeathed us. In our academies we learn history from the top down: “Big" people first followed by middling ones who managed to become important, and then the rest - farmers, laborers, servants, and craftsmen who left little more to posterity than their names in parish recor......more

Goodreads review by Sonia on August 17, 2023

At sixteen, I thought this book was a colossal bore, where was the excitement I was craving for... At a much later date, my craze for excitement in books had abated, I picked it up and found it very good. It really is a meticulous account about rural England at the turn of the Century . The author......more

Goodreads review by Maria Olga on January 07, 2021

Una amena y deleitosa lectura, Flora Thompson me hizo sumergirme en su mundo, recordando con añoranza tiempos pasados, una novela para saborear sin prisas, muy amable lectura para esto tiempo que estamos viviendo, excelente forma de narrar. Extractos del libro: No hagas preguntas y no te contarán ment......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Miss Eliza) on June 17, 2009

Seeing as this book is 3 books in 1 my review has averaged the 3 books. Book 1: Lark Rise 1 star Rather boring overly detailed living in crappy village. I would think it was endearing and sweet if she didn't destroy all her lovely anecdotes with something horrible about what happened years later. Lik......more