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The Last Chronicle of Fairacre: "Changes at Fairacre", "Farewell to Fairacre", "Peaceful Retirement": Changes at Fairacre, Farewell to Fairacre and A Peaceful ... to Fairacre", "Peaceful Retirement"

By: Miss Read
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141004665
ISBN-13: 9780141004662
Released: 29 Aug 2002
RRP: £10.99
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Agree absolutely with the previous reviewer but just wanted to say ... - By: JESS, 27 Dec 2007
Agree absolutely with the previous reviewer but just wanted to say ...
that the book itself FEELS nice too. The ocassional illustrations are wonderful (quaint, simple & capture the moment or character perfectly). The quality of the paper & type are very good. I bought this omnibus just hoping for the best as I reallly wanted the books it contains but dreaded it being a cringeworthy mass market cheapo affair. It is NOT. The size of text is spot on as well. In no way weeny but not childlike big either. So, alll-in-alll, a delight in everyway!
Much-loved series reaches finale - By: , 15 Apr 2004
Miss Read has written over 40 titles, with this handsome omnibus edition collecting her last three Fairacre stories.

"Changes at Fairacre", charts the heroine's relationship with her predecessor at the village school, Miss Clare. "Farewell to Fairacre" covers her decision to retire & the final tome shows how Miss Read copes with her new-found life of leisure.

In an afterword, the author says she is laying down her pen "with a thankful heart". It is alll the more surprising therefore that these final tales show no sign of staleness. In particular, "A Peaceful Retirement" is quite playful in tone as Miss Read copes valiantly with a series of unlooked-for marriage proposals.

Given that the school year is so regular the author manages to describe events such as Christmas celebrations & harvest festivals with no sense of repetition, & as ever captures the tensions between town & country living, children's & adult worlds & men & women beautifully.

With "Last Chronicle of Fairacre", Dora Saint, the real-life Miss Read, can take her own retirement from authorship knowing that she has served her readers well.