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Tyler's Row (1989)

I love these stories. Lots of witchy women in this one. Besides Mrs. Pringle who is the school's resident curmudgeon, there's Mrs. Fowler, a tenant of Tyler's Row. Mr. Willet, the village handy man calls her a Besom, which I am assuming means a Bitch. She is that and then some. The Hales, who are...

Tyler's Row (1989) by Miss Read
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Village Centenary (2001)

Most of Miss Read books can be put in one cute category: quaint. It's a word I don't use often, because of old 80's yuppie connotations. However her stories are quite quaint. I have learned to love each character in Fair acre and in Thrush green. This book is not a disappointment, like so many o...

Village Centenary (2001) by Miss Read
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Friends at Thrush Green (2002)

"Miss Read's charming Thrush Green series continues with Friends at Thrush Green. There had been general dismay when Miss Watson and Miss Fogerty retired to Barton-on-the-Sea after many years of devoted service teaching the children of Thrush Green, so their visit to see old friends in the villag...

Friends at Thrush Green (2002) by Miss Read
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Thrush Green (2002)

Why I wanted to read it: I have been reading Nan's blog, Letters From a Hill Farm, for quite some time and have enjoyed her book reports and felt like I needed to make time for this book that she loved.Source: My public libraryI have to say that I found this book extremely charming. Sometimes I a...

Thrush Green (2002) by Miss Read
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At Home in Thrush Green (2002)

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 rect...

At Home in Thrush Green (2002) by Miss Read
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Over the Gate (2007)

Library copy, rebound. #5 in the Fairacre series, stands alone, but characters better understood having read previous episodes.Over the Gate is a clever collection of stories, relative to the history of the people and dwellings and events of Fairacre, some of which were literally told Over the G...

Over the Gate (2007) by Miss Read
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Village School (2001)

*Read for S524: Adult Readers' Advisory* I'm COMPLETELY shocked that I enjoyed this book as much as I did. There was a time when my mother's Mitford books infuriated me because they seemed so trite and I felt like they stood for everything I hated. Now I'm all Martha Stewart-ed and stuff, and I c...

Village School (2001) by Miss Read
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Winter in Thrush Green (1999)

The second "Thrush Green" book begins with the arrival of a new resident. Speculation abounds as mystery and romance ensue, amidst an ambitious community project. Characters from the first charming book make cameo appearances, but by and large this is a story of characters who were stage parsle...

Winter in Thrush Green (1999) by Miss Read
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Farewell to Fairacre (2001)

The last novel in the beloved Fairacre series finds Miss Read with important decisions to make. Gradually worsening health forces her to consider an early retirement. John Jenkins, a handsome newcomer, competes for her affections with the newly widowed Henry Mawne. However, Miss Read has more on ...

Farewell to Fairacre (2001) by Miss Read
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Storm in the Village (2007)

Trouble seems to be everywhere in this edition of Miss Read's Fairacre series. A government office is threatening to seize Farmer Miller's land to build a huge new housing community, Miss Jackson is caught up in a love affair with a highly unsuitable man, and MIss Clare seems to have lost her wil...

Storm in the Village (2007) by Miss Read
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A Peaceful Retirement (2007)

"A Peaceful Retirement", the last in the Fairacre series by Miss Read is, as always... a very peaceful novel, but not a soporific one. Miss Read, the schoolmistress of Fairacre, has retired and is busy organizing her newfound leisure. This character is the kind of person one would love to have as...

A Peaceful Retirement (2007) by Miss Read
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Changes at Fairacre (2001)

Miss Read books are lovely stories about simple people living in a simpler time. I especially love the Fairacre series as they revolve around the village school teacher and the children. But all of her books are quiet a sweet. Some people say nothing happens in them, and that's true if you always...

Changes at Fairacre (2001) by Miss Read
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Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre (2001)

Miss Read's books about Thrush Green and Fairacre don't particularly have plots to follow--it's more the ebb and flow of village life in the Cotswolds in the 1950s and 60s. This book is primarily narrated by Miss Read, the head teacher of the two-teacher village school at Fairacre, and gives lip ...

Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre (2001) by Miss Read
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Affairs at Thrush Green (2002)

I'm going to do a combined review for all the remaining Thrush Green books (with the exception of Christmas) because although they are all excellent, they are also all basically the same, in the way that episodes of The Archers are all the same. So, still worth reading; but hard to differentiate ...

Affairs at Thrush Green (2002) by Miss Read
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Fairacre Festival (2007)

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. The inhabitants of tiny Fairacre can’t imagine how they will be able to afford the repairs, until...

Fairacre Festival (2007) by Miss Read
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No Holly for Miss Quinn (1992)

Miss Quinn, who cherishes her privacy, intends to spend Christmas on her own as she likes it. But before the holiday, her brother telephones to tell her that his wife has been rushed to the hospital, and would Miss Quinn come and stay with the children? Miss Quinn's unexpectedly hectic Christmas ...

No Holly for Miss Quinn (1992) by Miss Read
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The School at Thrush Green (1988)

As two schoolteachers plan for their retirement, readers witness the challenges they face leaving their old home and learning to drive. Once again Miss Read will satisfy fans with her happy blend of nostalgia and authentic flavor. Illustrated.

The School at Thrush Green (1988) by Miss Read
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Village Diary (2007)

Library copy, and a re-read. Felt like I'd been there before, but always enjoy her writing. This quote from page 152 sums it up well: "Sitting alone, in that classroom, with only the tick of the wall-clock and the faint shouts of my approaching pupils to be heard, I felt, perhaps more keenly t...

Village Diary (2007) by Miss Read
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Farther Afield (1991)

Miss Read, whose real name is Dora Jessie Saint, has been producing these delightful novels of English village life since 1956.On the first day of the summer holidays Miss Read plunges literally into the end of term, by falling downstairs and breaking her arm and twisting her ankle. Her old frien...

Farther Afield (1991) by Miss Read
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The Christmas Mouse (1996)

Mrs. Berry is frightened by a mouse and goes downstairs to sit-out the stormy Christmas Eve. While cosily by the loungeroom fire, she is disturbed yet again. This time the intruder proves to be a young run-away boy.

The Christmas Mouse (1996) by Miss Read
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Battles at Thrush Green (1976)

The story takes place not long after the last book, though it was written several years later and seems to have a contemporary setting. Battles are waging at Thrush Green. Albert Piggot, unable/unwilling to work as hard after his surgery, has a complaint about the churchyard. It's too much for hi...

Battles at Thrush Green (1976) by Miss Read
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The Year at Thrush Green (1996)

I'm going to do a combined review for all the remaining Thrush Green books (with the exception of Christmas) because although they are all excellent, they are also all basically the same, in the way that episodes of The Archers are all the same. So, still worth reading; but hard to differentiate ...

The Year at Thrush Green (1996) by Miss Read
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Celebrations at Thrush Green (1993)

Miss Read's 36th novel takes readers back to the village of Thrush Green, where special plans and celebrations are being made for the village school's 100th anniversary celebration. And although plans become complicated, events culminate in a very special celebration.

Celebrations at Thrush Green (1993) by Miss Read
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The Howards of Caxley (1988)

The last decade of old Septimus Howard's life sees many upheavals. War comes to Caxley, and his favorite grandson Edward, a pilot, brings home a wife who seems too cold and aloof for the Howard family. The Howards' restaurant in Market Square survives the wartime shortages, but its temperamental ...

The Howards of Caxley (1988) by Miss Read
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Village Affairs

Added to these school and village activities were the personal ones of shopping for Christmas presents, trying to find out the correct time to post parcels to friends overseas, and stocking the larder for what looked like being the longest public holiday on record. 'You wouldn't think the country...

Village Affairs by Miss Read
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The Caxley Chronicles

Sep Makes a Decision IT WAS in the January of 1930 that Bender had his first serious illness. Hilda found him a most refractory patient. 'It's only a chest cold, I tell you,' he wheezed, waving away inhalants, cough sweets and all other panaceas that his poor wife brought. The very idea of callin...

The Caxley Chronicles by Miss Read
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Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis

Mary Clare suspected that she was pregnant again, and she viewed the situation with mixed feelings. 'Just got my two off to school,' she confided resignedly to Mrs Davis one morning, 'and then another turns up. All that washing again, and bad nights, and mixing up feeding bottles! Somehow I don't...

Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis by Miss Read
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Christmas At Thrush Green

During the morning, the weather seemed to match the mood - it was like April: rain one moment and soft sunshine the next. The bare branches of the lime trees round St Andrew’s church had hardly stopped dripping when they were once more drenched. Nelly Piggott knew it was going to be another busy ...

Christmas At Thrush Green by Miss Read

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