In the rural hamlet of Lark Rise and the nearby market town of Candleford, life is marked by the pattern of the seasons and the customs of the countryside.

This wishlist book goes to redfox5.
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About time I got round to reading this. My dad loves this book and was re-reading it when my mum was pregnant and that's why I'm named Laura :)

Thank you for this wishlist book!

I've been alive 29 years now and I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to get round to reading my namesake book. I was pretty eager to start this, but found that eagerness wearing off pretty sharpish.

The trouble is with 'The Lark Rise To Candleford' is that not a great deal happens, especially in the first part of the trilogy. We spend the whole of Lark Rise having the way of life they describe to us in great detail, with only small titbits about Laura thrown in.

The second two books were a great improvement as we actually start to follow Laura in what resembles a storyline. But this still wasn't enough to keep making me pick up the book.

I feel like if you have a great interest in how life was 'way back when', then you will enjoy this more than I did. I did find it interesting how religion was starting to be thrown off back then. I always assumed this came much later.

Do I mind being named after Laura? Not at all, she actually did remind me of me, taking pleasure in the orderly routine of things. I'll still be proud to tell the story of where my name came from, I just won't recommend that people read the book!

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