Dreams Of The Good Life
Author: Mabey, Richard
ISBN: 9780141044811
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Apr 2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
'It seems unlikely we shall ever get closer to the woman who wrote Lark Rise to Candleford' Sunday Times
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealing how a formidable imagination can arise from the humblest of beginnings, Dreams of the Good Life paints a poignant, unforgettable portrait of a working-class woman writer's struggle for creative expression.
ISBN: 9780141044811
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Apr 2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
'It seems unlikely we shall ever get closer to the woman who wrote Lark Rise to Candleford' Sunday Times
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealing how a formidable imagination can arise from the humblest of beginnings, Dreams of the Good Life paints a poignant, unforgettable portrait of a working-class woman writer's struggle for creative expression.
