Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love - and other writings

@2@@20@A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.@21@@3@@2@From organising the school summer fete...@3@@2@'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand'.@3@@2@...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood:@3@@2@'I collect stones with holes in them'.@3@@2@Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters:@3@@2@'Michael Joseph wrote after the @18@Observer@19@ thing and is throwing out feelers for a book. I shall know if he still feels like it - me too! - after we've met'.@3@@2@It will also include an Introduction on how 'Miss Read' was first created: @3@@2@'Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments and aged about forty. She was born, in fact, when I was struggling to write my first book and needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator.'@3@

Product details

• Authors: Miss Read, Miss Read
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.10.2014
• EAN: 9781409148142
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-4814-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Fairacre; Thrush Green
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Diaries, letters & journals, Autobiography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, EDUCATION / Rural, Rural communities, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Diaries, letters and journals, Local and family history, nostalgia, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General