My husband and I have just finished watching the complete series of Larkrise to Candleford. Have you seen this BBC series that ran from 2008 to 2011? Oh, you should. This morning at the breakfast table as we were finishing up, I asked my husband who was his favorite character, and believe me that is not an easy question to answer if you have given it no thought.
I realized this morning, my favorite is Queenie. Yes, definitely Queenie grew to rise above them all as my most favorite character. She was so full of love and caring for others, even those who would display such unlovable and selfish propensities in a variety of ways. But she was equally firm and not shy of admonishing and rebuking when needed. She possessed a contentment and joy of being comfortable in her own skin.
"I am no more than a beekeeping wife."
Her sagacious words spoken to Gabriel at the end of the series changed the course of two lives. She was a world changer of sorts in a little hamlet in the English countryside, though she would not say so.
"What a person believes isn't what they think, isn't what they say; it's what they do."
~Queenie Turrill
NOTE: Queenie was superstitious and a reader of tea leaves.
She had some definite flaws.
