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Chester, Nicola

Nicola Chester grew up in the countryside and has spent her adult life in small rural communities, living in tied and tenanted farmworkers’ cottages on country estates, where the rural past never seems far away. Her memoir, On Gallows Down, was published in 2021.

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20220217121409 SFE No. 58: Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

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Nicola Chester on Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise has always felt like home. A romantic notion, perhaps, from someone brought up in the 1970s and ’80s, rather than a century ago, as Flora was. I first read it when I was 13, then again in my twenties, and once more recently, this time as a mother, looking back on my own childhood but also on that of my children, as the oldest two began to make their way into the world, away from the rural hamlet and tenanted ex-farmworker’s cottage they’ve grown up in. With the passing of time that feeling of home­coming has only grown stronger.

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