- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; 1st edition (3 Oct 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718132025
- ISBN-13: 978-0718132026
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 19.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 182,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a really beautiful book.It's non-fiction,featuring the real-life places that were the settings for the books about Thrush Green.During the war Miss Read lived at Witney,in Oxfordshire,and close by was a village called Wood Green.When she started writing the books,she remembered these places,and turned Witney into Lulling,and Wood Green into Thrush Green.
There are photographs of the actual places,and many of John Goodall's gorgeous illustrations, to show how bits were added or taken away to make it the place we love.There are also lovely maps of Thrush Green on the endpapers,and many enjoyable reminiscences from Miss Read herself on the happy times she had with her husband,who was at a nearby RAF station,and her baby daughter,born during their time there.
This is such a lovely book,to dip into or read right through,or to use as a reference guide as you follow the exploits of Dotty Harmer,Ella and Dimity,Charles Henstock,Albert Piggott,Dorothy and Agnes at the village school,the Misses Lovelock and all the other inhabitants of Thrush Green.
There are photographs of the actual places,and many of John Goodall's gorgeous illustrations, to show how bits were added or taken away to make it the place we love.There are also lovely maps of Thrush Green on the endpapers,and many enjoyable reminiscences from Miss Read herself on the happy times she had with her husband,who was at a nearby RAF station,and her baby daughter,born during their time there.
This is such a lovely book,to dip into or read right through,or to use as a reference guide as you follow the exploits of Dotty Harmer,Ella and Dimity,Charles Henstock,Albert Piggott,Dorothy and Agnes at the village school,the Misses Lovelock and all the other inhabitants of Thrush Green.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Frankly I consider this book to have been a total waste of money. It would only enchant someone who had not read all the Miss Read books already. The writer's recollections during her time in Wood Green and Witney during the early 1940's could have been condensed into about two pages. On the plus side, this very small amount of personal recall was certainly excellent and the photographs were also of great interest. Disappointingly, the entire book consisted of the best descriptive passages from different Miss Read publications about the village and town and its characters, which of course one has already purchased and read attentively. I have enjoyed all of Dora Saint's books and admired her style of writing but found this book to be mostly superfluous.
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