Read Series: Fairacre
by Author John S. Goodall
Village Affairs (2007)
I really enjoy these books so much. This story dealt with the possibility of Fairacre school being closed. Rumor run rampant and Miss Read worries that she will lose her happy situation as Fairacre school's headmistress. Of course that's not the only thing for her to worry about. She worries abou...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis (2007)
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. The...
Summer at Fairacre (2001)
This wonderful book describes one memorable summer for Miss Read, and her friends in the little village of Fairacre. The descriptions of the village gardens just jump off the page. You can almost smell the honeysuckle and the roses in her garden. Most of these books cover all four seasons but thi...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...