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Summer at Fairacre

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Main Author: Read, Miss
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985, c1984.
Edition:1st Houghton Mifflin ed.
Series:Fairacre ; 16
Subjects:
Fairacre (England : Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Country life > England > Fiction.
Villages > England > Fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
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Physical Description:241 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:0618127046 :
9780618127047
Author Notes:Miss Read, 1913 - 2012 Miss Read was born on April 17, 1913 as Dora Jessie Shafe. She worked as a teacher and started writing after World War II for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She wrote her novels under the name Read, which was her mother's maiden name. She is best known for her novels of English rural life and used her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in her novels. She wrote more than forty novels; many were set in the British countryside -- Fairacre and Thrush Green novels.

Read finished her writing career in 1996 with A Peaceful Retirement. In 1998, she was awarded an MBE for her services to literature. She died on April 7, 2012.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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