Celebrations at Thrush Green Quotes

“There were two enormous hip baths, three wooden towel rails, and a fireguard which had probably been in use some seventy or eighty years earlier in the girls’ nursery. There were several dismantled iron bedsteads stacked against one wall, the legacy probably of servants long-dead, and a pile of circular hat boxes towering over a wicker chair with a dilapidated cushion showing signs of mouse occupancy. Tennis racquets of antique design,”
― Miss Read, Celebrations at Thrush Green: A Novel

“My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.”
― Miss Read, Celebrations at Thrush Green: A Novel