So when Enid, a talented seamstress, arrives in Candleford looking for a job, it seems Pearl's prayers have been answered. Over in Candleford, Thomas and Dorcas are at odds. The whole business with Daniel the Evil Journalist stitching up both town and country with his Evil Journalist Ways only to repent of his trickery and eventually champion an unexpectedly successful poetry competition. The humanity and touching wisdom in the way characters are portrayed, slowing revealing the reasons for their behaviour are truly moving. Lark Rise to Candleford was one of those laid-back Sunday night treats when it aired back in 2008-2011. Meanwhile, Caroline has returned to Lark Rise, and Minnie assumes it's only a matter of time before Alf comes to propose, now that his ma is back to look after her children. Gabriel Cochrane, the once-wealthy owner of a large iron foundry arrives in Candleford. At its core, the story is about the peaceful English countryside near Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at the turn of the 20th century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson (1876 - 1947) about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century.The stories were previously published separately as Lark Rise in 1939, Over to Candleford in 1941 and Candleford Green in 1943. _W.themePlugins = []; _W.recaptchaUrl = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js";