Changes at Fairacre Book

Miss Read books are lovely stories about simple people living in a simpler time. I especially love the Fairacre series as they revolve around the village school teacher and the children. But all of her books are quiet and sweet. Some people say nothing happens in them, and that's true if you always have to have big events in your novels. These books are more episodic in nature - which makes sense as the first one was written like the teacher's diary. (Miss Read is also the teacher's name.)

Anyway, in this book change comes to Fairacre - in the form of new people arriving, old faces leaving and Miss Read, the teacher, relocating. It takes place over fall and winter, and there's a wonderful sense of seasons changing as well. Don't read this one first, though. Start at the beginning of one series and work your way through.

Miss Read books are like cozy visits by the fire with an old and dear friend. And a cup of tea, of course.