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Written by Miss Read (pen name of Dora Jessie Saint) - Audio book performed by Gwen Watford - Unabridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES

Publisher, Audio Partners (July 2001)

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"We humbly thank Miss Read for the enormous richness, charm and delight she has added to our days." -- Jan Karon, author of the popular Mitford books, as posted to the Penguin Putnam, Inc., web page.

Listeners who are fond of bestselling author Jan Karon have a treat in store with their discovery of Miss Read. Her Thrush Green series offers comforting, cozy fiction with engaging characters and gentle humor.

Change occurs everywhere, even in the small fictional community of Thrush Green in the British Cotswolds. Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty have taught at the school for as long as anyone can remember, but now they're thinking and talking about retirement. It won't be an easy adjustment for them, or the village residents. Whom can they find that can possibly fill the women's shoes? Meanwhile, the town wonders if the Lovelock sisters will keep their domestic help. And is that young man really an architectural student, as Agnes thinks? Will Dorothy and Agnes ever find a suitable retirement home - and if the school is sold, what will happen to it? A thoroughly engaging, warmhearted, small-town tale, certain to appeal to the millions of fans of Jan Karon's bestselling Mitford series.

Miss Read is a pseudonym for Dora Jessie Saint, who wrote prolifically based on her life as a teacher in a small English village. She wrote 30 novels in her Thrush Green and Fairacre series. She began her writing career as an essayist for the British magazine Punch and has been a scriptwriter for BBC. Retired now from both teaching and writing, she recently celebrated her 86th birthday and lives in a tiny Berkshire hamlet.

Gwen Watford (1927-1994) enjoyed an award winning acting career that spanned decades and included numerous stage, screen, and television performances.