Lark Rise to Candleford

Yes I did read it, but have no memory of it which is embarrassing.

It is quite beautiful MayBee. About rural Suffolk .

I read Winifred Foley books too.

And Mill on the Floss, A Country Child, so many others which may need re-reading.

And it's a reminder that we should write down our memories and those of our parents and grandparents. It's something I mean to do as I research family history.

The book is currently starring in a story from Ambridge. Susan. It’s a charming plot

The books are a trilogy, Lark Rise Over to Candleford and Candleford Green, first written in 1939 I believe. I'd read them before the TV series but I loved the screen version.

I loved the book, and the first series was lovely.
Another book/series combo I really enjoyed from a million years ago was The Camomile Lawn.

I remember a teacher regularly reading Mill on the Floss to us. She must have read it so many times over the years but she still became emotional.

The books were her memories of her very real life. I used to live not that many miles form her very real home and visited it a few times. You quickly realise that it was written around the scale o a young child's mind. The actual plac e is not that big and everything that is in the book can be found. I drove from Larkrise which isn't its real mane to Candleford where the very real death of her brother is recorded on the wall of he dead of World War One. The journey took me in a car 25 minutes but on a horse and Cart it would have taken most of the day.

Lovely rendition of the book. While we are on calming stories with no murder - I turn to Dectectorists for a shot of calm and country.

The book was recently mentioned on The Archers

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The books were her memories of her very real life. I used to live not that many miles form her very real home and visited it a few times. You quickly realise that it was written around the scale o a young child's mind. The actual plac e is not that big and everything that is in the book can be found. I drove from Larkrise which isn't its real mane to Candleford where the very real death of her brother is recorded on the wall of he dead of World War One. The journey took me in a car 25 minutes but on a horse and Cart it would have taken most of the day.

I didn't think it was that far?

Cottisford, where Flora went to school is nearly 4 miles from Juniper Hill and Fringford (Candleford) is another two or three miles further on.

Far enough to walk to and from school each day, of course, but she moved into the Post Office at Fringford when she started working there.

I turn to Dectectorists for a shot of calm and country

Ah yes Sandelf and humour!

Oh yes, off-beat and quirky!

My mother gave me 'A Country Child' when I was eight, and it is still one of my favourite books. I also love Alison Uttley's other books, including 'A Traveller in Time' . 'Lark Rise' was read to us at the last period on Fridays, and I 've loved it ever since.

Yes, remember it from years ago. I loved both the book and the series, and watched it again a few years ago. I will definitely watch it again.

Two books that I was introduced to some years ago by the author are:- 'From Shires to Spires' ,and 'Carriers Cart to Oxford.' Both are by a lady, now sadly deceased called Mildred Masheder . My mother was at school with Mildred in Oxford from 1929-1934, where they were good friends and clever girls. I actually get a mention in one of the books, only in passing though! Both books extremely interesting with a rare insight of life between the two world wars.

Lark Rise was a set book for CSE in 1969,along with a Pattern of Islands. Loved both.

We need programmes like this to get us through the winter. I use my Granddaughter's old portable dvd player and enjoy lots of the older dvds.

Just watched the first episode of Cranford. Very entertaining. Got the dvds and Return to Cranford plus 3 series of Larkrise for £10 in a charity shop.
I too am using a portable dvd player albertina. Very handy.

UKTVPLAY is showing Middlemarch at moment. it is quite old, not even in widescreen, with Robert Hardy and a young Douglas Hodge. I have only watched the first 3 episodes so far but it is quite faithful to the book up to now.

I had to read this at the age of 15, for O level, and I was bored, bored, bored. Minute descriptions of village life are all very well but you do need some kind of plot as well! Absolutely nothing happened.
I saw a bit of the TV series but can't remember a thing about it. Presumably someone had to add a storyline of some sort!

Oh. That’s the one with Rufus Sewell. It was wonderful. I’ve yet to read Middlemarch. I think I’ve attempted it a few times. I had a video of a tv adaptation of The Mill on the Floss from the days when I video’d everything but never got round to watching them. When I did get round to watching it I found it unbearably sad. I remember one book I read that said how ladies hated it when they had to go into mourning because they wouldn’t be able to wear that years fashionable hat. I sometimes get mixed up with which books I’ve read and which ones I’ve watched on tv.

Anyone remember Anna of the 5 Towns? It was based around the Potteries, and I think a young Peter Davison was in it. I loved it but the accents were a little extreme, as I recall. I always intended to read the books but never got around to it.

Loved it

I read the Clayhanger books and think there was a tv series made. And The Country Girls.