A Peaceful Retirement - Couverture rigide

Read, Miss

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0718141237 ISBN 13 : 9780718141233

Editeur : Michael Joseph, 1996

Synopsis

Miss Read greets retirement with considerable excitement determined to prove wrong those friends who doubt she will be able to cope alone. But it is not as she planned - John Jenkins continues to propose marriage, and Henry Mawne has some trouble with his new wife and tries to enlist her sympathy.

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

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.

Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs, and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbors. With her teaching days behind her, Miss Read discovers her talent for writing, opening a new and exciting chapter in her life — and bringing to a close her stories of life in Fairacre, the timeless English village beloved by millions of readers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michael Joseph
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718141237
• ISBN 13: 9780718141233
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible