Laura Timmins has come a long way from her humble origins in Lark Rise and now feels more at home in Candleford, where she loves her work at the Post Office. She does not often see her parents or brothers and sisters.
She is very good friends with Alf Arless, who in Season 1 is somewhat in love with Laura, but later on gives up when Laura tells him that she sees him as her dear friend, not as a lover. Laura was also friends with Phillip White, and their friendship was slowly turning into romance when Laura began to see Phillip's possessiveness and stopped seeing him after he makes her father lose his job. In Season 2, Laura meets Fisher Bloom, a travelling clockmaker who is building a clock commissioned by James Dowland. At first she does not like him as he is very honest with her and thinks she is "too buttoned up" but later on falls in love with him. She tries and fails to make him stay after the clock is completed, and ends up having her heart broken.
Her relationship with Daniel Parish, who edits (and writes) the Candleford Chronicle gives her the stability she needs to take a fuller, more adult role in the local community, whether it's helping out her mother Emma while Robert is away, or simply making observant notes about everyone and everything in her beloved journal.