Thrush Green - Couverture souple

Read, Miss

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140018026 ISBN 13 : 9780140018028

Editeur : Penguin, 1977

Synopsis

A May Day fair in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green brings to light pleasures and pains - past, present and future.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Miss Read, 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green.

The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair. For young Paul, just recovered from an illness, it is a joy to be allowed out to play at the fair; for Ruth, who returned to the soothing tranquillity of Thrush Green nursing a broken heart, the fair is a welcome distraction from her own problems. And for Dr Lovell, the fair brings an unexpected new patient. Then there is Mrs Curdle, the long-standing matriarch of the fair. For her, this year's visit to Thrush Green awakens mixed feelings, and a difficulty she doesn't want to face...

Read by Clare Higgins

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140018026
• ISBN 13: 9780140018028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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