Reader recommendation: Block Salt & Candles
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
June 25, 2015
If Flora Thompson鈥檚 鈥淟ark Rise to Candleford鈥� took place in Wales in the 1940s and 鈥�50s, it would be Mary Davies Parnell鈥檚 Block Salt & Candles: A Rhondda Childhood. Both books celebrate a village poised between old and new.