After a long winter of red noses and wet mittens, summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her downland village friends. SUMMER AT FAIRACRE charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unf...

#9 in the beloved Fairacre series: The Hale family moves to a cottage at Tyler's Row, in hopes of finding a utopian haven of peace. But sandwiched between the redoubtable Sergeant Burnaby and the poisonous Mrs. Fowler, they soon disco...

As time unfolds in the quiet village of Thrush Green, vicar Charlie Henstock, whose home his burned to the ground, is making his new home in the neighboring village of Lulling and suffering all kinds of problems with his new parishion...

Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her.

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

The English village of Fairacre, comfortably nestled in the heartof the Cotswolds, is a picturesque place of tile-roof cottages, ahistoric church, a post office, and a small primary school. Through theschool's beloved headmistress, Mi...

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. Therector's plan for the neglected churchyard doesn't meet with universalapproval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someonehas returned to th...