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Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love: and other writings

English

By (author): Miss Read

A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.

From organising the school summer fete...

'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 collect stones with holes in them'.

Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters:

'Michael Joseph wrote after the Observer thing and is throwing out feelers for a book. I shall know if he still feels like it - me too! - after we've met'.

It will also include an Introduction on how 'Miss Read' was first created:

'Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments and aged about forty. She was born, in fact, when I was struggling to write my first book and needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator.'

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Product Details
  • Weight: 242g
  • Dimensions: 151 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781409148142

About Miss Read

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.Four plays based on her work have been written by Ron Perry Miss Read's Thrush Green Miss Read Remembered Return to Thrush Green and The Village School.

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