Battles at Thrush Green (Thrush Green Series #4) - Couverture souple

Read, Miss

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0618884416 ISBN 13 : 9780618884414

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

Over the course of one autumn and winter, a series of disputes threatens the peace of inhabitants of a small English village, as the rector's plans for the neglected churchyard stirs controversy, opponents clash at the local school, and someone returns to Thrush Green after a fifty-year absence. Reprint.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector’s plan for the neglected churchyard doesn’t meet with universal approval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someone has returned to the village after an absence of fifty years.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0618884416
• ISBN 13: 9780618884414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240