News from Thrush Green - Softcover

Read, Miss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140036598 ISBN 13: 9780140036596

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1973

Synopsis

There are new people now on the Green. When old Admiral Trigg ad his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months. Then one bright April day some discreet onlookers saw a good-looking woman pushing her way through the nettles to the front door. Who was she? Was she married? Then where was her husband? These were only some of the questions later asked by her curious neighbours. The mystery is only part of the latest news from Thrush Green, the village which bubble with feuds, disasters and delights...

About this title

About the Author:

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter. Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140036598
• ISBN 13: 9780140036596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192