From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve in "The Christmas Mouse" to an unwanted change of plan in "No Holly For Miss Quinn", the author recounts some of the Christmas events where often things do
Have a happy Christmas in the English countryside with a volume of three heartwarming holiday tales from Miss Read.As frost sparkles on cottage roofs and smoke rises from chimneys, the English village
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.The English village of Fairacre may appear idyllically peaceful to passersby, but those who live among its shady lanes always have problem
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 woul
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charmi
The enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre. Each chapter describes a month in th
Tthe first day of October brings an unheralded and violent storm, which whips through Fairacre, blowing down trees and telephone poles -- and, worst of all, damaging the roof of St. Patrick’s Church.
Tullivers, the former home of old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy, had stood empty for many months. Then, one bright April day, two newcomers move in -- an attractive young woman and her son -- and
Over the course of one autumn and winter, a series of disputes threatens the peace of inhabitants of a small English village, as the rector's plans for the neglected churchyard stirs controversy, oppo
Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved country village, often through neighborly conversation over the gate. Fa
Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row, with charming leaded-glass windows and an arched thorn hedge over the gateway, are
The inhabitants of the village of Thrush Green become excited when a distinguished bachelor decides to settle in the village for his retirement, stirring a wave of speculation. Reprint.
