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Miss Read
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 9780752898575 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales long ago, and with what unfailing curiosity I observe the happenings of today!" From an unusual weight-losing recipe found in an old notebook - and used with alarming consequences - to the queen of copy-cats who drives her neighbour mad with anger, OVER THE GATE is a hugely entertaining collection of tales from Fairacre, past and present. Miss Read, the school mistress, continues to attract odd stories and village folklore, and retells them with her characteristic compassion and humour.
Review
Another brilliant story from the Miss Read collection read by Carol Boyd.
There are some wonderful stories on these discs of a receipe to help you lose weight and not in the way most of us would think. The story of the copy cat neighbour who follows everything her neighbour does and does the same for her child and home. Also as per usual in this set of discs we hear a great deal about the village school children's antics and their wonderful head mistress.
I love these stories because of the way they are written and read; they allow you to slip away and imagine a really sleepy village that has many secrets behind its doors. Miss Read seems to produce the same depth of interest in every different set of stories that she writes.
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