News from Thrush Green - Softcover

Miss Read

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140036598 ISBN 13: 9780140036596

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

Synopsis

Tullivers, the former home of old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy, had stood empty for many months. Then, one bright April day, two newcomers move in -- an attractive young woman and her son -- and the villagers begin to show their interest and attention, especially several bachelors.

About this title

Book Description

The third novel in the bestselling Thrush Green series. Abridged edition.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140036598
• ISBN 13: 9780140036596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192