In this her last book, published posthumously in 1948, Flora Thompson returns again to her childhood in the old countryside, and paints an unforgettable portrait of the people she knew and the lives they led. Unlike her bestselling trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, however, this is entirely fictional, and in it she lets loose her imagination and artistic skills to wholly new effect. The book is like a magic carpet, carrying the reader back to the village of Restharrow, where life was hard but values were solid and enduring...