Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love and other writings: Read Miss

A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of Village School.

From organising the school summer fete...

`Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand`.

...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood:

`I collect stones with holes in them`.

Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters:

`Michael Joseph wrote after the Observer thing and is throwing out feelers for a book. I shall know if he still feels like it - me too! - after we`ve met`.

It will also include an Introduction on how `Miss Read` was first created:

`Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments and aged about forty. She was born, in fact, when I was struggling to write my first book and needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator.`