Tag: nostalgia

• Small but Perfect – a Gem of a Book

  At some point, I don’t know where or when, I read a favourable review of JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, and it obviously made an impression on me, because I remembered it when I came across a copy while I was sorting through donations in the charity shop, so I had to buy…

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  March 11, 2013

  A Month in the Country, First World War, JL Carr, nostalgia, rural idyll

• Discovering Miss Read

  Following the death of Miss Read (the nom de plume of Dora Saint) earlier this year, I realised I had never read any of her work so, deciding to remedy the situation, I headed for the library where I found Changes at Fairacre and The Year at Thrush Green.  And what did I think? Well,…

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  June 4, 2012

  Dora Saint, Fairacre, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Miss Read, nostalgia, village, village school