Customer Reviews
A must buy for fans of Lark Rise!!!!! - By: Spongemix, 14 Mar 2008 
Concentrating on Flora Thompsons time as a post office assistant in Grayshott, Hampshire. Heatherley continues in the same beautifully written vein as the more well known Lark Rise to Candleford stories. I finished this book in a day or so & found I just couldn't put it down. Like Lark Rise, this is more of a personal memoir than a story, & it is incredibly heartwarming & moving to realise that the many characters written here were real living, breathing people with very different stories & experiences that Thompson writes with real humanity & feeling.
I live just a few miles from where this is set, but you need not have seen or walked the heath or streets for a picture of the landscape & village, as the writing is so poignantly vivid that you will soon find yourself transported to Flora's time & world.
Any fans of Lark Rise must buy this book to discover what happened next in Flora's (or Laura's as she continues to refer to herself) life, & will again enjoy & appreciate the beautifully written passages on the surrounding nature as much as the tales of the people. Highly recommended!!!!!
A great find - and a great read - By: , 25 Jun 1999 What a wonderful find this book has been - Flora Thompson's "lost" sequel to her classic trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford". In Heatherley, Flora continues to share her life experiences, which give us a glimpse of rural life almost a hundred years ago. Written in her natural & compelling style, this book, too, will surely become a classic. Jo Smith's historical notes help to identify the characters & places giving the book even greater value for social historians & those who enjoy a great read.
