Name: A Peaceful Retirement
Price: 14.61 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780618884384

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Product Description

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Although Miss Read has waited many years to enjoy a peaceful retirement after bidding farewell to her students and fellow teachers. Of course, Miss read could never 'just retire." She goes on holiday to Florence, helps with church and school affairs and neighbors. What Miss read didn't expect was that she has a penchant for writing, which starts a new chapter in her life and closes the chapter of her life stories in Fairacre, the timeless English village beloved by millions of readers.

Product Information

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Title: A Peaceful Retirement
By: Miss Read
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 160
Vendor: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 2007

Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 6 ounces
ISBN: 0618884386
ISBN-13: 9780618884384
Series: Fairacre Chronicles
Stock No: WW84381

Publisher's Description

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Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.

Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs, and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbors. With her teaching days behind her, Miss Read discovers her talent for writing, opening a new and exciting chapter in her life — and bringing to a close her stories of life in Fairacre, the timeless English village beloved by millions of readers.

Author Bio

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Miss Read (1913-2012) was the pseudonym of Mrs. Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, especially those set in the fictional villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write until her retirement in 1996. In the 1998, she was awarded an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, for her services to literature.