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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
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
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
Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre
In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt ...Show more
Over the Gate by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
"The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales long ago, and with what unfailing curiosity I observe the happenings of today!" From an unusual weight-losing recipe found in an old notebook - and used with alarming conseque ...Show more
Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees. Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy mysteriously disappears. ...Show more
The Village School by "Miss Read"
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
Read where it all began ... Miss Read classics. New to OrionFairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible s ...Show more
Village Centenary by Miss Read
Category: Fiction | Series: Fairacre Ser.
VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Miss Read's cozy downland village just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of Fairacre School. Miss Clare, who was a pupil and later a teacher there, points out that such a centenary should be celebrated, and all of Fairacre is quick to offer suggestions -- fr ...Show more
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