'Miss Read', a former village schoolmistress, is well-known for more than forty books about Fairacre, its village school and school mistress. Although the microcosmos of village life might sometimes feel restricting to city dwellers, the love of Nature and the changing seasons, the lack of sentimentality and dry humour, tend to make these deceptively uncomplicated books a haven of their kind. Certainly, this one is an excellent introduction to the whole series.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 20 September 2003 ) |
