Christmas at Fairacre

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Michael Joseph, 1991 - Fiction - 358 pages

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Amelia Amonetti Annett armchair asked baby bedroom Beech Green began Bender Berry's Bertie Caxley child Christmas cards Christmas Eve Christmas pudding church cold comfort cottage cried dark daugh dear door downland Eileen Emery eyes face Fairacre Father Christmas feel fire Frances garden gazed hand happy Hazel head heard heart hedge Holly Lodge hope Jane Jenny Jesse Miller Joan kitchen knew Lifebuoy soap little girls looked Lovell Lovell's Madeira cake Margaret Mary Mary's Miss Quinn morning mother mouse mousetrap Mummy neighbours night old lady Pepe pillow pink Pringle remembered replied returned Robin rose scudding clouds seemed sister sleep smile soon Springbourne St Patrick's stood suddenly There's things thought Miriam thought Mrs Berry THRUSH GREEN told took tree turned upstairs vicar vicarage village warm watched wayzgoose Willet window wondered young

About the author (1991)

Miss Read, 1913 - 2012 Miss Read was born on April 17, 1913 as Dora Jessie Shafe. She worked as a teacher and started writing after World War II for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She wrote her novels under the name Read, which was her mother's maiden name. She is best known for her novels of English rural life and used her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in her novels. She wrote more than forty novels; many were set in the British countryside -- Fairacre and Thrush Green novels. Read finished her writing career in 1996 with A Peaceful Retirement. In 1998, she was awarded an MBE for her services to literature. She died on April 7, 2012.

Bibliographic information

TitleChristmas at Fairacre
Volume 17 of Fairacre, Miss Read
AuthorMiss Read
Illustrated byJohn S. Goodall
Editionillustrated
PublisherMichael Joseph, 1991
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedApr 2, 2010
ISBN0718133889, 9780718133887
Length358 pages
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