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Celebrations at Thrush Green (Thrush Green #11)
by
Miss Read
Miss Read's 36th novel takes readers back to the village of Thrush Green, where special plans and celebrations are being made for the village school's 100th anniversary celebration. And although plans become complicated, events culminate in a very special celebration.
Hardcover, 151 pages
Published
September 1st 1993
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
(first published 1992)
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Another lovely story about the doings at little village Thrush Green. It's time to plan the 100 year anniversary of Thrush Green grammar school. At the same time, the school in Africa founded by Thrush Green graduate, Nathaniel Patten, is celebrating an anniversary. Dottie Harmer is writing a book about her father, who was once schoolmaster of the village school, and was feared by many of his less stellar students. Everybody gets involved in the preparations and a good time was had by all.
Miss Read invents a comfortable cast of characters in her Thrush Green novels. A tiny village and typical problems can sometimes make for tedious reading, though. Sadly, that's the case with this novel. There is no central conflict, though one minor one adds slight interest. The book trudges along with the expected turns, though they are few. Unless you are a Miss Read devotee, I do not recommend this book. (Even bathroom literature should at times produce an outcry!)
When I need a dip into my past, I read Miss Read. Celebrations at Thrush Green fit the bill. As usually, Miss Read recalls a time gone by when villages thrived and friends and neighbors knew one another over the span of generations. This time the village of Thrush Green is working together to celebrate it's famous native son on the centenary of the opening of the village school and of a mission school in far away Africa. Loely!
No se cómo describir este libro, aunque me gustó mucho.
Just re-read this book. I love Miss Read!
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Dora Jessie Saint MBE née Shafe (born 17 April 1913), best known by the pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress. Her pseudonym was derived from her mother's maiden name. She began writing for several journals after World War II and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC.
She wrote a series of novels from 1955 to 1996. Her work centred on two fictional English villa...more
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