"The Mole Catcher's Apprentice: Flora Thompson's original book is my favourite book of all time"
It's on my top five list too and is the only book I have ever kept in my bedside drawer for 30 something years just in case I can't sleep and want to dip into it at three in the morning! I've actually lost count of how many times I've read it.

WLD: "Anyway Phil is busy there with the new Revox, splicing block and razor blade (how quaint was technology in those far off days!)"
You mean they don't do it like that now? *g*

Just to add my fourpennorth: I really love the book(s) and am sad that people who have never read Lark Rise to Candleford will think that the TV adaptation is a true interpretation. For myself, I'm watching the series but as something new in its own right and trying hard not to pick it to pieces too much (difficult - particularly with the Dawn French character which is so wrong but... there you go).
It's pleasant watching but doesn't grab me the way the book does.