Changes at Fairacre

Read, Miss

ISBN 10: 0140146490 / ISBN 13: 9780140146493

Edité par Penguin Books, London, 1992

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To view other titles by this author enter the keywords; XDCX, XJGX, Read or Fairacre. The book is in good condition with minor wear o/w tight, clean and square. A Fairacre story. Cover art by Stephen Lavis.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Changes at Fairacre
• Éditeur: Penguin Books, London
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140146490
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140146493
• Reliure: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrateur: John S. Goodall
• Édition: 1st Thus
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

The central theme of this novel is the death of Miss Clare, Miss Read's predecessor at the village school. However, there are plenty of side stories about the well-known characters of Fairacre: Mrs Pringle the school cleaner and her niece Minnie, the Partridges and the Willets.

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.