Christmas at Thrush Green, Miss Read
Christmas at Thrush Green, Miss Read
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Christmas at Thrush Green

Author: Miss Read

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Abridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 11/05/2009

Synopsis

The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings, families go to church together, everyone enjoys treats of the festive season. And when it snows as the carol singers make their way round the cottages on the green, it seems as if Christmas will be perfect this year. But not everything is as peaceful as it seems.

Phyllida and Frank have their work cut out for them when they agree to take on the Nativity play - made all the more difficult by an outbreak of chicken pox. The indomitable Ella has lived in Thrush Green for as long as anyone can remember, but lately she has been behaving strangely. Then there are the dreadful Burwells, newcomers to Thrush Green, who cause something of a stir with their 'home improvements'. For Nelly, owner of The Fuchsia Bush tea shop, Christmas is an especially busy time, with people dropping in for much-needed refreshment, weary from all their Christmas shopping, but then she receives an unexpected letter.

Read by Carole Boyd

(p) 2009 Orion Publishing Group

About Miss Read

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter. Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.Four plays based on her work have been written by Ron Perry, Miss Read's Thrush Green, Miss Read Remembered, Return to Thrush Green and The Village School.

About Carole Boyd

A Carleton Hobbs Award Winner, Carole Boyd has worked extensively in radio drama and features, and is famously known as Lynda Snell in The Archers. In 1998 she won an APA Audio Award for The Land Girls and a British Talkie Award for The God of Small Things. In 2001 she won an SWPA Silver Award for Middlemarch. Carol has read numerous Miss Read titles for Orion Audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on December 13, 2017

There is no point in reading this book if you aren't familiar with the Thrush Green universe of the Miss Read novels. I have many trusted reading friends who rate the Miss Read books very highly, but this book was written by the author's editor - and while it may have imitated the Miss Read style, a......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on December 27, 2023

Very difficult to read even knowing all the characters. An attempt by an editor to say goodbye to everyone without Miss Read, Dora Saint, on hand.......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on December 26, 2024

This is my third or fourth read of Miss Read's Christmas at Thrush Green. It has been a long time since, though, and so it was a homecoming of sorts. I love the characters, the setting and the satisfaction of all those cozy expectations - Miss Read is brilliant at that! Now I'm ready to step into......more

Goodreads review by Terris on December 23, 2024

I just finished "Christmas at Thrush Green"! It was really good. Though I read my last Miss Read book in 2007 (39 at last count!), the story was told in such a way that many of the people and their relationships to each other were explained, and I did remember some of their stories. It was very swee......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 27, 2023

Very obviously not written by the original Miss Read.......more

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