Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, written by Flora Thompson, and first published in that form in 1945. The trilogy includes the previously published stories Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941) and Candleford Green (1943). The stories relate to three communities, a hamlet, the nearby village and the nearest town, in north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England at the start of the 20th century. The stories are loosely based around Flora's childhood experiences. There is a permanent exhibition about her work in the Old Gaol, Buckingham, the town that was used as the basis for Candleford. She wrote a sequel Heatherley (c.1944) which was published posthumously. (via Wikipedia)