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More Tales from Lark Rise Betty Timms Betty Timms was born in 1886 in the North Oxfordshire village of Juniper Hill. She was the younger sister of Flora Thompson , the author of the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford . Betty's Timms stories will undoubtedly delight those who were enchanted by Lark Rise. All will be spellbound when they peep into the pin-a- sight that she has so lovingly created for us. The Timms family were certainly blessed with literary talent. Like Flora, Betty became an accomplished writer, best known for her children's book The Little Grey Men of the Moor, published in 1926. Its success may have inspired Flora to write her books. After Betty's death a draft typescript for an autobiographical novel was discovered among her possessions: it forms the body of this book and recalls a childhood spent in the villages of Juniper Hill (which Flora christened Lark Rise) and Cottisford. Schooldays, holidays, celebrations, working days, evenings in the public house and afternoons in the cottages are all described in detail. Flora described the 1880s, Betty gives us a portrait of the 1890s and includes the Queen's jubilee. Betty's observations and new stories cast fresh light on the Timms' family life. A number of the characters can be recognised as those who appeared in Lark Rise. Queenie is a notable example. Betty develops the lives of some very interesting individuals into wonderful cameos, seen through the eyes of a child growing up among them. Promotion : Reviews expected in Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, Guardian. Fiction B Format 176pp 18th September 2012 978 1 902279 47 3 Pb £9.99 Wychwood Press [email protected] Distributed by Central Books Ltd, 99 Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN, England, Tel: +44 20 8986 4854. Fax:+44 20 8533 5821 [email protected] .

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