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Miss Read

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was born 17 April 1913. A teacher by profession, she started writing after the Second World War for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She is best known for her immensely popular novels of English rural life. The first of these, VILLAGE SCHOOL, was published in 1955 and Miss Read continued to write about the fictitious villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green until her retirement in 1996. She lives in Berkshire and in the 1998 New Year Honours list was awarded an MBE for her services to literature.

Previous Titles include:

Christmas at Fairacre (TPB December 05) ;

A Country Christmas;

Village School;

Village Diary;

Storm in the Village;

Thrush Green;

Winter in Thrush Green

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