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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
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
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
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
Christmas with Miss Read (incl. Christmas at Fairacre, A Country Christmas) by Miss Read
Category: Fiction
CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve in THE CHRISTMAS MOUSE to an unwelcome change of plan in NO HOLLY FOR MISS QUINN, Miss Read recounts some of the traditional Christmas events where often, despite the most careful planning, things do not always go as expected. In his char ...Show more
Farewell, Thrush Green by Miss Read
Category: Fiction
This omnibus edition contains "Celebrations at Thrush Green" and "The Year at Thrush Green", bringing the "Thrush" story to an end.