Christmas at Fairacre - Softcover
Three uplifting Christmas tales--No Holly for Miss Quinn, Village Christmas, and The Christmas Mouse--are offered here in one enchanting volume. The English village of Fairacre is a vision of holiday joy, but celebrations of the season do not always go as expected.
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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.
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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.
An affectionate, humorous and gently charming chronicle... sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing―NEW YORK TIMES
Unforgettable characters... drama, romance and humour―EXPRESS
Miss Read so understands and loves the country and can write to tenderly and humorously about the minutiae of village life without distortion or sentimentality―TLS
Unforgettable characters... drama, romance and humour―EXPRESS
Miss Read so understands and loves the country and can write to tenderly and humorously about the minutiae of village life without distortion or sentimentality―TLS
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- PublisherPenguin Uk
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140129006
- ISBN 13 9780140129007
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
- IllustratorGoodall John S.
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