In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventually sharing a cottage in their retirement. They felt grief when a village family was lost on the Titanic. They each experienced young love and then heartbreak when the First World War interrupted both of their romances. The triumphs and tragedies of their days are depicted with all the humor, heartbreak, and human warmth for which Miss Read is known, providing a sensitive portrait of life in the country.
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"One somehow expects Peter Rabbit to pop out of one of Miss Read's thatched cottages, and start chatting up the various apple-checked parties who staff this Beatrix Potter world." (New York Times Book Review (Feb 13,1972) )
"[Emily Davis] has its own distictive charm which should not be overlooked." (Best Sellers )
"A beautiful book, a lovely book." (Witchita Falls Times )
"[Emily Davis] has its own distictive charm which should not be overlooked." (Best Sellers )
"A beautiful book, a lovely book." (Witchita Falls Times )
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Miss Read is 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. She lives in Berkshire.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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a century in an English village,
By Miss Ivonne (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis (The Fairacre Series 4 & 8) (Paperback)
Dolly Clare, longtime schoolteacher at Fairacre School, outlasted many headmasters. In this volume, the 70-year-old spinster looks back at the many changes in her beloved village of Beech Green. Miss Clare remembers her life with just a touch of sentimentality, which we lovers of Fairacre and Thrush Green are only to happy to grant her.
It's amazing to consider that Dolly Clare saw the advent of the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, regular bus service (which would end the isolation of English villages), and the welfare state; two world wars, and the end of agrarian England in her 70 years. In short, Dolly, born in the Victorian Era, would live into the Space Age. What an amazing life!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A place I hope still exists somewhere,
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This review is from: Miss Clare Remembers and Emily Davis (The Fairacre Series 4 & 8) (Paperback)
Ah- Miss Read, what a perfect way to relax and know that you are going to have a soothing visit. At the same time you will enter the world of an English village, the way I hope they still exist somewhere. Twenty years ago I lived in an English village and the life and reactions of the people were much as Miss Read depicts. These stories take me back to a time I loved and a place where life was a bit less complicated - maybe not to the characters in the story, but certainly less than what seems to surround most of us today. It's the perfect "safe" book to give your mother or someone else who would rather not be entertained with violence. I guess a number of people would consider it an old fashioned read, but then it's nice to have that available
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This was a great story. It takes you back to before Miss Read came to Fairacre and gives the history.
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A FINGER of sunlight, wavering across the white counterpane, woke Miss Clare from a light sleep. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wartime memories, box staircase Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emily Davis, Beech Green, Miss Clare Remembers, Dolly Clare, Doctor Martin, Miss Davis, Billy Dove, Fairacre School, Miss Turner, Mary Clare, Francis Clare, Queen Victoria, The Caxley Chronicle, Bob Dixon, Ted Pickett, Caxley High Street, Danny Goss, Bob Willet, Aunt Dolly, Jane Draper, Jesse Miller, Did Emily Tell, Harry Roper, New York, Jane Bentley Browse Sample Pages:
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A FINGER of sunlight, wavering across the white counterpane, woke Miss Clare from a light sleep. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wartime memories, box staircase Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Emily Davis, Beech Green, Miss Clare Remembers, Dolly Clare, Doctor Martin, Miss Davis, Billy Dove, Fairacre School, Miss Turner, Mary Clare, Francis Clare, Queen Victoria, The Caxley Chronicle, Bob Dixon, Ted Pickett, Caxley High Street, Danny Goss, Bob Willet, Aunt Dolly, Jane Draper, Jesse Miller, Did Emily Tell, Harry Roper, New York, Jane Bentley Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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