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A Country Christmas by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction Ser.
Taken from the original omnibus CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE, Miss Read's wonderfully festive collection of Christmas stories is packed with entertaining characters and enchanting stories. From the rural festivities in Village Christmas and Jingle Bells to the pre-war story Christmas At Caxley 1913, the intrig ...Show more
A Peaceful Retirement by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village. Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, ...Show more
Affairs at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
In Affairs at Thrush Green, Miss Read continues the fortunes of the Thrush Green families whom we last met in Gossip from Thrush Green. Here we follow the kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, to the neighboring Lulling, after his home was burned to the ground at the end of the earlier novel. Going to a new c ...Show more
At Home in Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
It is spring in the village of Thrush Green. In neighboring Lulling, Charles Henstock admires the blooming garden of his new vicarage, glad that the squabbles with his parishoners in Affairs at Thrush Green are settled. And yet the good vicar wistfully recalls his former home - the ugly, old rectory of ...Show more
Battles at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction
Children's voices ring out from the school playground; in the distance there is the gentle hum of a lawnmower; and all around the village birdsong can be heard. But despite all evidence to the contrary, in the village of Thrush Green, feelings are running high...The rector has a plan for the neglected c ...Show more
Celebrations at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
A major, double celebration is planned in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green: the village school is in its centenary year; and exactly a hundred years ago, one of the village's most notable residents founded a mission school in Africa. But the preparations are beset with problems - Winnie Bailey's hea ...Show more
Changes at Fairacre by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Even a small English village can't escape growing pains. "If you've ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you'll relish a visit to Fairacre." (Jan Karon, #1 New York Times-bestselling author). Times are changing in the charming downland village of Fairacre, and Miss Read isn't certain that it's all for the ...Show more
Christmas At Fairacre by "Miss Read"
Category: Fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction
The people of Fairacre celebrate Christmas in a traditional style which has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings, families go to Church together, and everyone enjoys Christmas cake and other treats of the festive season. From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Ev ...Show more
Christmas at Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Thrush Green Ser.
A brand new Miss Read novel, set in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green at Christmas. It seems as if Christmas will be perfect this year. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems. Phyllida and Frank have their work cut out for them when they agree to take on the Nativity play - made all the more d ...Show more
Farewell to Fairacre: The eleventh novel in the Fairacre series by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Miss Read must face the future in another delightful slice of village life... Now that Fairacre school no longer faces the threat of closure, Miss Read is looking forward to a few more years of teaching before retirement. But the best-laid plans often go awry. Unexpectedly, her health begins to fail and ...Show more
Farther Afield by Miss Read
Category: Fiction
"No matter how devoted, dedicated, conscientious and altogether noble a teacher is, I feel pretty sure that each and everyone feels the same sense of freedom and relief from her chains when the end of term arrives..." So it is for Miss Read - but on the very first day of the long summer holiday she fall ...Show more