by Miss Read (Author)
An enchanting story of village life from the bestselling author of the FAIRACRE series.
January has been bitterly cold in Thrush Green. But at last the winter seems to be melting into a beautiful spring.
But with the warmer weather comes a series of local dramas in the community: the future of The Fuchsia Bush tea shop is uncertain when its owner, Mrs Peters, falls ill; there are problems concerning Rectory Cottages, which prove hard to solve; the plans for the village fete - always an event rife with conflict - are hotting up...
Meanwhile, the arrival of a stranger from America excites much interest and curiosity - who is he, and what effect will he have on the village?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Orion
Published: 09 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 0752884271
ISBN 13: 9780752884271
Book Overview: An enchanting story of village life from the bestselling author of the FAIRACRE series.
Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter.
Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.
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