Affairs at Thrush Green

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Book

Title:

Affairs at Thrush Green

Author:

Read, Miss.

ISBN:

9780618238576

Edition:

1st Houghton Mifflin pbk ed.

Publication Information:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series title(s):

Thrush Green ;

Number in series:

BK. 7.

Summary:

In Affairs at Thrush Green, Miss Read continues the fortunes of the Thrush Green families whom we last met in Gossip from Thrush Green. Here we follow the kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, to the neighboring Lulling, after his home was burned to the ground at the end of the earlier novel. Going to a new church is never easy, even in the best of times; indeed, poor Dr. Henstock encounters some very redoubtable females in Lulling. A full-scale power struggle erupts over the question of kneeling cushions for the Lady Chapel, and other difficulties revolve around the crotchety old sexton Albert Piggott. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the Fuschia Bush cafe, and its rivalry with the Two Pheasants becomes more acute. One knows, however, that Miss Read will make all come right in the end.

Subject(s):

Thrush Green (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.

Country life -- England -- Fiction.

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In Affairs at Thrush Green, Miss Read continues the fortunes of the Thrush Green families whom we last met in Gossip from Thrush Green. Here we follow the kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, to the neighboring Lulling, after his home was burned to the ground at the end of the earlier novel. Going to a new church is never easy, even in the best of times; indeed, poor Dr. Henstock encounters some very redoubtable females in Lulling. A full-scale power struggle erupts over the question of kneeling cushions for the Lady Chapel, and other difficulties revolve around the crotchety old sexton Albert Piggott.
Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the Fuschia Bush cafe, and its rivalry with the Two Pheasants becomes more acute. One knows, however, that Miss Read will make all come right in the end.

Author Notes

Miss Read, 1913 - 2012 Miss Read was born on April 17, 1913 as Dora Jessie Shafe. She worked as a teacher and started writing after World War II for Punch and other journals and as a scriptwriter for the BBC. She wrote her novels under the name Read, which was her mother's maiden name. She is best known for her novels of English rural life and used her own memories of living and teaching in a small English village in her novels. She wrote more than forty novels; many were set in the British countryside -- Fairacre and Thrush Green novels.

Read finished her writing career in 1996 with A Peaceful Retirement. In 1998, she was awarded an MBE for her services to literature. She died on April 7, 2012.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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More from Thrush Green and the environs of Fairacre, Caxley, and Lulling--parishes under the kindly purview of the Reverend Charles Henstock, who stars in this latest village miniature by the armchair-Angiophile's Grandma Moses. The old rectory in Thrush Green has burnt to the ground (Gossip from Thrush Green, 1982)--so now the vicar and wife Dimity live in Lulling, where gossip is still a friendly, delicate affair. Among the problems and pleasures involving the good vicar: the rages of formidable matron Mrs. Thurgood, who's offended by the vicar's generally low-church tone and furious that he will not accept her offer of new kneelers (designed by her ungainly artist-daughter); the marital woes of lazy old Albert Piggot, whose enormous wife Nelly has run off with the gas man; the domestic situation of old dotty Dotty, whose kind niece Connie will arrive to take charge. But the major excitement here is the appearance of elderly Kit Armitage, looking for a new home in the vicinity and finding lots of older female admirers--including the three spinster Lovelock sisters. (Kit will find a younger wife, the admirable Connie, and disappointed Violet Lovelock will wipe away a tear, firmly striding off to make a pudding.) In other words: everything as always--from the J. S. Goodall illustrations to the love-matches, ailing dogs, quiet deaths, and Christmas celebrations. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

1 A Snowy Morning	p. 11
2 The Rector Goes About His Duties	p. 24
3 Unknown At The Fuchsia Bush	p. 35
4 Rumours At Thrush Green	p. 48
5 A Visit To Tom Hardy	p. 60
6 Spring Fevers	p. 73
7 Albert Piggott Under Pressure	p. 85
8 Albert Makes A Journey	p. 99
9 Dotty Harmer Has Visitors	p. 111
10 Mrs Thurgood Fights Again	p. 123
11 Problems At Thrush Green	p. 136
12 A Question Of Housing	p. 148
13 A Job At The Fuchsia Bush	p. 160
14 Thundery Conditions	p. 173
15 Under Doctor's Orders	p. 186
16 House-Hunting	p. 199
17 Future Plans	p. 211
18 Charles Is Melancholy	p. 224
19 Marriage Plans	p. 236
20 Three Christmas Visitors	p. 247

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