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Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewisham, and one in Walton-on-the-Naze. EARLY DAYS is full of childhood memories of an extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins, and their houses full of mystery and adventure, where Miss Read spent so much time, living in the shadow of the 1914-18 war. At the age of seven, Miss Read moved to the small village of Chelsfield, Kent, into a magical new world - and so began her love of the English countryside, which was to have such a strong influence on her career as a writer. Her evocative descriptions of the village school, the joys of exploring the woods and lanes rich in wildlife, and of childhood events from toffee-making to the treat of a lift on the corn-chandler's cart, vividly convey this time as one of the happiest of her life.
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Miss Read was a teacher by profession who started writing after the Second World War. In additional to her novels, she has written on educational and country matters, and worked as a script-writer for the BBC. She lives in Berkshire, and was made an MBE for her services to literature.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A typical Miss Read book - From page one to the end it takes you back to a different era when neighbours where friends as well and everyone took a genuine interest in the highs and lows of their fellow villagers. As with all Miss Read books this can be enjoyed again and again. Forget your troubles and immerse yourself back to your childhood. Brilliant - would I recommend you bet!!!!!
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Early days provides a brief but glorious escape from the noise, mechanisation and brutality of the modern world. Closely connecting with nature, this books allows insight into a world when people were allowed their quirks and foibles and were not so constrained by rules and regulations.
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Miss Read's books are not full of psychological insights, either in her fiction or in this memoir, but this book is full of loving recollections of a happy childhood. Each of her late Victorian/Edwardian relatives is given an affectionate cameo portrait, from the efficient Aunt Rose (a school teacher) to the remote Grandpa Shafe "he was quite sure that he was always right, was narrow-mindedly religious, relishing the taboos imposed by Victorian standards so that, as children, we were never allowed to play on the beach or read anything other than the prescribed holy books allowed by Grandpa on a Sunday ... older people may remember some of these lugubriuous effusions. The titles of those I remember were "Froggy's Little Brother", "Buy Your Own Cherries" and "Christie's Old Organ" and they dealt with sanctimonious children, usually dying of some lingering disease".
The first part (A Fortunate Grandchild) deals with various family members and their homes; the second part "Time Remembered" is an account of Miss Read's happiness when, as an eight year old, she leaves the city behind and moves out into the countryside. There is a sub-text here when the reader considers how in such a short space of time the planners and developers have obliterated huge areas of beautiful countryside. What Miss Read saw and delighted in as a child is no longer there for our children to enjoy.
The first part (A Fortunate Grandchild) deals with various family members and their homes; the second part "Time Remembered" is an account of Miss Read's happiness when, as an eight year old, she leaves the city behind and moves out into the countryside. There is a sub-text here when the reader considers how in such a short space of time the planners and developers have obliterated huge areas of beautiful countryside. What Miss Read saw and delighted in as a child is no longer there for our children to enjoy.
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