"Miss Read specialised in storms in village teacups, and in her fictional hamlets of Thrush Green and Fairacre she conjured up a cosy, idyllic world of thatched cottages, gardens bursting with hollyhocks and roses, and well-tended village greens.
Her cast of characters included mildly eccentric vicars, bossy postmistresses, gentle spinster teachers, farmers’ wives and well-scrubbed children in pinafores and frocks. It was a world where everyone knows everyone else’s business, and which yields only reluctantly to change."
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