- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; New impression edition (27 Aug 1970)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140018182
- ISBN-13: 978-0140018189
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 131,901 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is really good! My Mum has been reading the Miss Read books for ages, and she gave me this one to try, coz I didn't have anything to read.
It was soooooooo good! It's about a young women, coming from a country village, where she has been all her life, to a crowded town to train as a teacher.
This is not a task for the faint hearted, as there are 50 children in her class! This book is written from the teachers point of view, about teaching 50 children in a horrible cramped city, and about how she gets on with the other teachers.
Read this book, or any of the other Miss Read books NOW!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A lovely Miss Read book, slightly different in that it dwells on the history of a yung teacher coming from a rural background and how she fares in the city before coming home to teach in the village school. Very gentle and without rancour. This will appeal to all those who enjoy the rose-tinted spectacles of life in the villages in the 50s and 60s etc
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
--Endearing story--
11 April 2004
Format:Hardcover
FRESH FROM THE COUNTRY is the story of Anna Lacey a charming young woman who is filled with anticipation as she is assigned to her very first teaching position. The story is set in England and takes place in the late 1940's or early 1950's.
Nothing is quite what Anna expected. The cozy school of her dreams turns out to be large and located in an ugly urban area. Her class is filled with 46 students, so many that a teacher has barely the time to get to know the individual children. Keeping order among the students is another difficult issue for the young teacher. Anna's other big problem is housing. Rooms to let are not abundant and she's forced to move in with Mr. & Mrs. Flynn. Her bedroom is tiny and the overall accommodations leave a lot to be desired. Mrs. Flynn is ill spirited and the meals given to Anna are miserly and tasteless. Anna does befriend two other young teachers who often invite her to tea and add a little color to her otherwise regulated life. Just getting out of Mrs. Flynn's dreary house for a few hours makes her feel better.
As the year progresses Anna learns that there is a lot more to being a teacher than she had guessed. She also realizes that she really loves teaching, but knows that she will be happiest living in the country and working in a small school. The year ends with Anna anticipating the next year, a possible romance and life in general.
There are quite a few books written by Miss Read. She has the most wonderful knack of taking what might seem a rather bland scenario and turning it into a most interesting and satisfying story. Miss Read's real name is Mrs. Dora Saint. I recommend this book for anyone, but I think it would be especially interesting for a young person who is considering a teaching career.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
My absolute favorite "Miss Read" book....
10 Oct 2000
Format:Hardcover
Culture shock was not something I'd expected to read about in this gentle story, written probably around the era of 1940s. A young girl moves from her country home to begin the life of a school teacher in a new suburb. However, her sense of fun and country standards bring her through to a new understanding at the end of her first term. Absolutely and quite simply lovely. I wish her story could go on and on.
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