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A selection of full-length novels and short stories all with a Christmas theme. The three novels are "Village Christmas", "No Holly for Miss Quinn" and "The Christmas Mouse" and there are six stories from "Over the Gate" and extracts from "Village Diary" and "The Howards of Caxley".
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About the Author
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.
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An affectionate, humorous and gently charming chronicle... sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing―NEW YORK TIMES
Unforgettable characters... drama, romance and humour―EXPRESS
Miss Read so understands and loves the country and can write to tenderly and humorously about the minutiae of village life without distortion or sentimentality―TLS
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0718133889
- ISBN 13 9780718133887
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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