Book description
The second Fairacre novel, from the bestselling author of VILLAGE
SCHOOL. In her first book VILLAGE SCHOOL Miss Read gave a picture of the
small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country
area, a world peopled by the children themselves, Miss Clare the
venerable infants teacher, glum Mrs Pringle the cleaner, the vicar and
other inhabitants of Fairacre. In VILLAGE DIARY Miss Read describes the
people of Fairacre with the same exactitude, sense of comedy and sharp
observation. In addition to those characters familiar to readers of
VILLAGE SCHOOL there are newcomers, including dictatorial Amy, an old
college friend, Mr Mawne, whom the village sees as a possible husband
for the unwilling Miss Read, and the earnest new infants teacher.
Overshadowing everything, there is the mammoth country pageant in which
Fairacre is so sharply and painfully divided...
