Thrush Green Book

Cozy novels of village life are my favourite comfort reading, and I only wish I could find more of them. This is the sort of book in which _nothing happens_ except on a personal level -- people argue and then mend fences, gardens grow, seasons change, boys make friends, and occasionally there's a romance or two

These books remind me of Angela Thirkell, except written by someone a generation younger & so much less painfully right-wing. Miss Read is able to see beauty in a lot of things which would have made Thirkell miserable, like the cheap prizes available at the carnival, and she has quite a few working class characters who are treated as actual people rather than bowing-and-scraping scenery.