Farewell to Fairacre

Read, Miss (pseud Dora Jessie Saint)

ISBN 10: 0718136667 / ISBN 13: 9780718136666

Edité par Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1993

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First edition, first impression. Minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed but overall jacket fresh and bright. Not price clipped (£14.95), no inscriptions, slight lean, internally tight and clean, overall a vg++ copy. 213pp. From 1955 to 1996 Saint wrote a series of novels centred on two fictional villages, Fairacre and Thrush Green. The first Fairacre novel appeared in 1955, the last in 1996. The first Thrush Green novel appeared in 1959. The principal character in the books, Miss Read, is an unmarried schoolteacher in a small village school, an acerbic and yet compassionate observer of village life. Dora Saint's (1913-2012), novels are wry regional social comedies, laced with gentle humour and subtle social commentary. Saint was also a keen observer of nature and the changing seasons. N° de réf. du vendeur 002808

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Farewell to Fairacre

Éditeur : Michael Joseph Ltd, London

Date d'édition : 1993

Reliure : Hardcover

Illustrateur : Jacket by John S. Goodall

Etat : Near Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Farewell to Fairacre

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.