Lark Rise to Candleford

This trilogy of autobiographical fiction - Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green - describes rural Oxfordshire in the 1880s as remembered through Laura, a stone-mason's daughter. The hamlet of Lark Rise is a world of allotments, harvest, and cottage poverty; Candleford is the nearby market town of shops and a coach-route post office. Thompson records speech, food, school, church, and the slow arrival of new wages and new manners. There is no single intrigue: the books are a social portrait of a countryside on the edge of change, seen from a child's and then a young worker's place in it.

Quarter bound in green cloth with colour picture printed paper covers. Dark green slipcase.