Reader recommendation: Block Salt & Candles

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If Flora Thompson’s “Lark Rise to Candleford” took place in Wales in the 1940s and ’50s, it would be Mary Davies Parnell’s Block Salt & Candles: A Rhondda Childhood. Both books celebrate a village poised between old and new.

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