Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis [Paperback]

"One somehow expects Peter Rabbit to pop out of one of Miss Read's thatched cottages, and start chatting up the various apple-checked parties who staff this Beatrix Potter world." (New York Times Book Review (Feb 13,1972) )

"[Emily Davis] has its own distictive charm which should not be overlooked." (Best Sellers )

"A beautiful book, a lovely book." (Witchita Falls Times )

#8 in the beloved Fairacre series: Dolly Clare and her childhood friend Emily Davis are both retired teachers in the village school, who, due to their deep and lasting involvement in the life of their village and its children, meet many complexities beneath the surface and offer their help to the community.

Miss Read is the pen name of Dora Saint, who was born April 17, 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 the author of many immensely popular books, but it is for her novels of english rural life for which she is best known. 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, England and in the 1998 New Year Honours list was awarded an MBE for her services to literature.