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Mrs Griffin sends her love Mrs Griffin sends her love Miss Read Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand ...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood I c… OL20009194W
Thrush Green Thrush Green Miss Read A May Day fair in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green brings to light pleasures and pains - past, present and future. OL21412059W
Battles at Thrush Green Battles at Thrush Green Miss Read Thrush Green's rectory, bleak enough at the best of times, seemed more cheerless than ever as the storm winds blew around it, but it's not just the weather disturbing the peace of Thrush Green. Feeli… OL21539926W
Celebrations at Thrush Green Celebrations at Thrush Green Miss Read When the Cotswold villagers of Thrush Green decide to combine the 100th anniversary of a mission school opened by the village's most distinguished son - the Victorian Nathaniel Patten - and the cente… OL24155252W
Village diary Village diary Miss Read In her first book VILLAGE SCHOOL Miss Read gave a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country area, a world peopled by the children themselves, Miss Clare … OL24306613W
Thrush Green Thrush Green Miss Read This is the first book in Miss Read's Thrush Green series. The story takes place on May Day, the day Mrs Curdle's fair comes to the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. During this day, the fair is seen… OL502000W
News from Thrush Green News from Thrush Green Miss Read Tullivers, the former home of old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy, had stood empty for many months. Then, one bright April day, two newcomers move in -- an attractive young woman and her son -- and… OL502004W
Fresh from the country Fresh from the country Miss Read Farmer's daughter Anna Lacey, fresh from the country and from teacher's college, takes a job in a new and bleak London suburb, in a school that already holds twice the children for which it was built… OL502005W