Flora continued to write, although Lark Rise To Candleford was the last work published during her lifetime. Flora died from a heart attack in 1947, and is buried in Longcross Cemetery in Dartmouth ...
Lark Rise, based on her childhood at Juniper Hill, was published in 1939, followed by Over to Candleford in 1941 and Candleford Green in 1943. The three stories were published as a trilogy in 1945 ...
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century.
Mr Ashlow arrives in Candleford looking for his estranged daughters, Ruby and Pearl Pratt. Can they forgive him for deserting them when they needed him most? Caroline hides from a bailiff.