Contemporary
mobi, epub |eng | 1957-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

The day of the Scripture examination dawned hot and cloudless. The children arrived looking fresh and expectant. Their mothers always take especial pains to dress them well for 'the Bishop's ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

The days that followed were still darkened by Mrs Pringle's gloomy mood, but the limping seemed to ease a little as the days went by, and we became cautiously hopeful. ...
( Category: Literary September 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

11. Problems At Thrush Green AS THE weeks passed, and high summer embraced Lulling and Thrush Green, Albert Piggott's fears of the return of his Nelly grew less painful. He ...
( Category: British & Irish September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

Down at Barton-on-Sea Miss Watson and Miss Fogerty were busy with their preparations for their visit to Thrush Green. As always, Dorothy Watson's first worry was about her wardrobe. She ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

News of Winnie had reached, via Isobel Shoosmith, the two retired schoolteachers at Barton-on-Sea. Loving messages had been despatched to St Richard's, and Interflora had been directed to send a ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

The garden was overgrown, but the shape of submerged flower beds could still be seen, and the minute spears upthrusting by the house wall showed where there remained a clump ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

Chapter 6 A CHRISTMAS MEMORY MISS QUINN woke with a start, and sat bolt upright in bed. Close at hand a church clock was striking midnight, and its pulsing rhythm ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]

Humming happily to herself she went gently to and fro between the kitchen and living-room as she had done ever since she was a little girl of six. Soon Emily ...
( Category: Literary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1970-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

11 Albert has Suspicions HAROLD Shoosmith's bathroom was at the back of the house overlooking the little valley that lay to the west of Thrush Green. In the distance were ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1958-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

Miss Jackson was listening entranced to Miss Crabbe's monologue when I took in the coffee. Its theme, I gathered, as I set about pouring out was the regrettable manifestations of ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

In the weeks that followed, while his house was being repaired, Job was offered hospitality throughout Fairacre, but he would have none of it. As soon as the pitiful funeral ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

11 Preparing for Bonfire Night DURING the last few days of October, the large heap on Thrush Green of inflammable material such as wood, cardboard boxes and paper bags full ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

11 Amy's Party I WAS sad to see the last of May despite the problems it had brought me. Would June ever be as glorious, as fragrant, as tender with ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

'Bit late leavin', ain't you?' she remarked sourly. 'Clock wrong then? I was going to give the lobby a scrub out, but no use doing it till the children have ...
( Category: Literary September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

Mary Linkenhorn turned out to be a middle-aged, cheerful woman with absolutely nothing in her appearance to connect her with Dolly Clare. She was beautifully dressed with many fine rings ...
( Category: Contemporary September 16,2017 )