Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

Secrets of Candleford: the real Flora Thompson

A review of Dreams of the Good Life, by Richard Mabey. The author of Lark Rise has been ill served by dirt-diggers. This biography is better

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issue 01 March 2014
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