At Home in Thrush Green

Read, Miss

ISBN 10: 0718124995 / ISBN 13: 9780718124991

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1985

About this Item

- 205 mm. Green cloth hardcover, gilt titling to spine. Illustrated. Pp. 261. Minor edge wear with small tear (repaired) to DJ. Mild fading to board edges. Dated gift inscription written to verso of FEP. Overall, VG / VG. Seller Inventory # 003000

Bibliographic Details

Title: At Home in Thrush Green

Publisher: Michael Joseph, London

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Illustrator: Goodall, J. S.

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In place of the old vicarage, eight retirement homes are being built for those villagers most in need. But how to choose who will live there? How will they get on together? And how will they accommodate all the pets? The spring has brought a new crop of dilemmas, but Dr. Henstock and the villagers are determined to make the old people feel at home in Thrush Green.

About the Author:

Miss Read is the pseudonym of Mrs. Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, especially those set in the fictional villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write until her retirement in 1996. In the 1998, she was awarded an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, for her services to literature. She lives in Berkshire.