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Miss Read is the pseudonym of Dora Saint. A teacher by profession, she started writing after the Second World War for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She is the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it is for her novels of English rural life for which she is best known. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955 and Miss Read continued to write about the fictitious villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green until her retirement in 1996. She was awarded an MBE in 1998 for her services to literature.
Bibliography
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(2009)
Village School/Village Diary
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(2009)
Christmas at Thrush Green
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(2008)
News From Thrush Green / Gossip From Thrush Green
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(2006)
A Country Christmas
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(2001)
The Last Chronicle of Fairacre
