Over to Candleford by Flora Thompson is the second part in the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, which is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although on The Greatest Books of All Time the algorithm placed it only at 2461, my verdict inclines for the ‘defense’, it is more likely within my own 1,000 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Over to Candleford by Flora Thompson is the second part in the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, which is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although on The Greatest Books of All Time the algorithm placed it only at 2461, my verdict inclines for the ‘defense’, it is more likely within my own 1,000 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10

 

I have been exuberant when reading the first part https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/lark-rise-to-candleford-by-flora.html of Lark Rise to Candleford and enjoyed the second volume, even if it seems not to the same extent, due to circumstances, the usual setting of expectations to high and then it may have to do with…Rendell

 

Judgment in Stone is so exhilarating that something else in its vicinity would pale, for this reader anyway, I have seen La Ceremonie, the Claude Chabrol movie with Isabelle Huppert, and that made me ebullient, and having the chance to follow that overwhelming narrative, I took it, only Over to Candleford was not making me as ecstatic

Which is baffling, given that https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/live-flesh-by-ruth-rendell-is-one-of.html Live Flesh was less than banal, maybe I have to get back to it…nonetheless, back to Flora Thompson- this novel is ‘semi-autobiographical’, the main character represents the author, Laura Timmins, who lives in Lark Rise

 

This is a village, and we are in the nineteenth century, with no amenities in a small place, water from the well, light from candles, however, when they visit Candleford, a small market town, things are different, and not just practically, women and girls are valued in the latter, while in Lark Rise, boys and men abuse their privileges

Bicycles attracted my attention – every working day, I cycle for about 23 kilometers in all, downtown and back – they had ‘tortured expressions’, using the ones with the big and small wheels, but then everyone would have one or two, the humor was one aspect which I enjoyed here, from the simple misunderstanding to other things

 

The adolescent girls talked about their ‘boyfriends’, exaggerating, indeed, those had no idea that there was any connection, it was more, or exclusively imagining…they were mostly poor, ergo a trip to Candleford was like an adventure, perhaps more complicated than taking a plane to Kuala Lumpur, Laos today

Something else, they said ‘I have seen it in the newspaper, so it must be true’, naïve back then, on the other hand, there is this (often justified) mistrust of media in the present, the MAGA listen to and believe Foz and the like, which are liars to me, and those on this other side of the spectrum, I do not even talk to MAGA and their kind

 

There are all sorts of mesmerizing characters, the doctor, the uncle, the man who wants to become a Catholic, Laura is fantastic, she starts reading – eventually, maybe she will become a writer, if the author projects herself here, I will have to see this in the last part – and that might bring about what Umberto Eco said “The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.” https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-name-of-rose-by-umberto-ecco.html

 

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