It was both unexpected, and understatedly jolting, to read the final words of #LarkRise by #FloraThompson on #ArmisticeDay.

Reading: LARK RISE, by #FloraThompson, in a winsome blue cloth-bound edition released earlier this year by #SlightlyFoxed publishers.

“After her husband died, she went away to live with her eldest son, and the round house shared the fate of Sally's. Where it stood is now a ploughed field. The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been - 'melted into air, into thin air.”

Listening to: "Romance for String Orchestra" by #GeraldFinzi

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gHAhWZAJKaAZ4GfrugCbo?si=c488551e7a894d16