Greg and Ginny are in love and planning to be married. Greg finds a strange pair of slippers under the bed and is too besotted to believe they might have been left by another man.

When Ginny goes off for a day in the country—supposedly to visit her parents but actually to break things off with her older married lover, Philip.

Greg decides to follow her but arrives at Philip's house before Ginny, Greg asks for her hand from the man he thinks is her father, but Philip mistakenly believes that the strange young man is asking permission to marry Sheila, Philip’s exceedingly befuddled wife.

Once Ginny arrives, she convinces Philip to play the role of her father. Meanwhile, Greg still believes that Sheila is Ginny’s mother. The situation is further complicated by a series of hilarious misunderstandings until no one can be exactly sure who’s in love with whom.

Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of novels about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, at the end of the 19th century.

They were written by Flora Thompson and first published together in 1945.

The stories relate to three communities: the hamlet of Juniper Hill (“Lark Rise”), where Flora grew up; Buckingham (“Candleford”), the nearest town, and the nearby village of Fringford (“Candleford Green”),[1] where Flora got her first job in the Post Office.

The BBC adapted the plays into a television series which started in 2008.