Favorite Book - Number Four

It's just occurred to me that there are two posts this week with books as an illustration.  However this one is the bookself in my office. 
Book number four is Lark Rise to Candleford, by Flora Thompson.  It has been taken as a BBC series which is now on 16 DVD's and is a pleasant enough 19th century soap opera.  But the book, when I read it was quite an eye-opener.
It is the account of a young girl's life in the hamlet of Lark Rise and how they existed back towards the end of the 1800's.
Life had not changed that much then from a thousand years earlier.  Seasons came and went and people were desperately poor.  One of the hardest possessions for any family was boots for the children.  Once the harvest was in, then gleaning became a huge part of each family's need to provide corn for bread making over the next year.  Life was a constant struggle. The book's tale is simple and makes it easy to understand the problems of life back then with primitive medicine and few creature comforts.