Book description
Enchanting and affectionate stories of everyday country life in the
idyllic Thrush Green. 'There is something profoundly consoling about a
novel by Miss Read.' THE LADY Contains 13 great novels: THRUSH GREEN,
WINTER IN THRUSH GREEN, NEWS FROM THRUSH GREEN, BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN,
RETURN TO THRUSH GREEN, GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN, AFFAIRS AT THRUSH
GREEN, AT HOME IN THRUSH GREEN, THE SCHOOL AT THRUSH GREEN, FRIENDS AT
THRUSH GREEN, CELEBRATIONS AT THRUSH GREEN, THE YEAR AT THRUSH GREEN,
CHRISTMAS AT THRUSH GREEN. Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was
born 17 April 1913. A teacher by profession, she started writing after
the Second World War for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter
for the BBC. She is the author of many immensely popular books,
including two autobiographical works, but it is for her novels of
English rural life for which she is best known. The first of these,
Village School, was published in 1955 and Miss Read continued to write
about the fictitious villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green until her
retirement in 1996. She lives in Berkshire, and in the 1998 New Year
Honours list was awarded an MBE for her services to literature.
