Product Description
This final omnibus in the Fairacre series contains three books, CHANGES AT FAIRACRE, FAREWELL TO FAIRACRE and A PEACEFUL RETIREMENT. From worries in the first book that the village school may have to close due to falling numbers, the second book finds the school thriving but Miss Read, the long-time school mistress, having to retire due to ill-health. The third book brings the much-loved series to a close as Miss Read, now settled happily in her retirement, decides to write a book...
About the Author
Miss Read's first book, VILLAGE SCHOOL, was published in 1955 and began a forty-year career in which some forty books were published. These were primarily in the Fairacre and Thrush Green series but also included a cookery book and two volumes of autiobiography. She and her husband live near Hungerford in Berkshire.