The Real Lark Rise by Ted & Joan Flaxman

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A new account of the Parish in Oxfordshire where Flora Thompson spent her childhood and about which she wrote so engagingly, many years later, in 'Lark Rise' and its sequels. Written by Ted & Joan Flaxman, who live in the former school which Flora attended, and by whom a rich variety of facts relating to the history of the Parish and its inhabitants have been uncovered. The irascible squire who disinherited three of his seven children, and the way in which their lives were affected; the extraordinary idea, considered by the British government in 1937, that the risk of war in Europe might be reduced by handing over British colonial territory in Africa to Hitler's Germany; and the profound after-effects of the Victorian 'baby boom' on the lives of everyone in the Parish. And of course, the lasting legacy of Flora Thompson, now enhanced by the BBC's TV series 'Lark Rise to Candleford'.

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ISBN: 9780954898632
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