Miss Read

Fairacre is a village of cottages....

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place....

The village schoolmistress, Miss Read, greets retirement with excitement, and settles down to endless lazy days, but her idyll is interrupted....

Mrs Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favourite character in the Fairacre series....

The Cotswold village of Thrush Green is a particularly close-knit community, where many of the inhabitants have known each other since childhood....

As spring begins at Thrush Green, a series of local dramas takes hold of the community....

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school, and at the heart of the school, its head mistress, Miss Read....

When Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, moves a mile downhill to the parish of Lulling, his many friends rejoice in his promotion....

Having enjoyed robust health throughout her career, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress at Fairacre, is looking forward to an energetic retirement in a few years' time.....

A new excitement comes to the village of Thrush Green when Harold Shoosmith, a distinguished bachelor....

There are new people on the Green... When old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months....

Tthe village of Thrush Green decides to combine the 100th anniversary of a mission school opened by the village's most distinguished son and the centenary of the village school....

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there’s heated debate in the village about the new residents....

Gossip From Thrush Green returns readers to that delightful English village, neighbour to Fairacre, for a golden summer....

‘As I have been given a large and magnificent diary for Christmas... I intend to fill it in as long as my ardour lasts.’ Luckily, Miss Read’s ardour lasts all year, encompassing every aspect of Fairacre life....

Illegal battering of gingernuts and conkers in a murky corner of the playground; a procession of bearers of lost property interrupting the telling of the story of Joseph....

After the death of Emily Davis, school teacher and well-loved member of the local community, many of those who knew her cast their minds back to days past and to their memories of Emily....

A mouse's appearance on Christmas Eve in a widow's bedroom leads to a chance encounter with a small boy....

The end of the school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read....

The house 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....