Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms. And in The Fairacre Festival, after a heavy storm damages the church roof, the villagers must raise money to have it repaired, but something on a grander scale than fetes and coffee mornings is required. So the Fairacre Festival is launched.
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'Observed with exactitude, animation, and a sense of comedy that recall a Brueghel painting of village folk' - THE TIMES
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Tea, crumpets, and commotion--that's what Miss Read's two stories, both featuring a pair of British Berkshire villages, serve up. Written by one of England's most prolific and best-loved contemporary writers, these gentle reads describe the villagers' attempts to keep a fertile field from becoming a development and a windstorm that causes the loss of a prized chalice. June Barrie's right-as-rain accents take the listener down cobbled streets and into homes, shops, and the two-room schoolhouse. Her vocal shifts from educated schoolmistress to rough farmer to upstart schoolboy convince listeners they're hearing a cast of many go about their cozy country ways. E.V. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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