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From all the surrounding villages and hamlets, from tumble-down cottages hidden a mile or more down leafy cart tracks, the young men found their way to the market square. They came on foot, on bicycles, on horseback and in carts, farm ...more
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I like both the Fairacre and Thrush Green series, but the two book about the market town of Caxley have been overlooked. A shame, because Miss Read's careful tracing of the two families and how they w…
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“A man is little use when his wife’s a widow. Scottish proverb”
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D.E. Stevenson
“It was just the old house creaking in the wind, and talking to itself about all it had seen, and the big cheerful families which it had sheltered and sent forth into the world.”
D.E. Stevenson, Miss Buncle's Book

D.E. Stevenson
“Jerry took a large slice of wheaten bread, spread with golden butter, and bit into it with her small white teeth. It was a natural gesture - she was very hungry indeed - but to Sam, there was something symbolic about it. Jerry was like bread, he thought. She was like good wholesome wheaten bread, spread thick with honest farm butter; and the thought crossed his mind, that a man might eat bread forever and ever, and not tire of it, and it would never clog his palate like sweet cakes or pastries or chocolate éclairs.
D.E. Stevenson, Miss Buncle Married

D.E. Stevenson
“Books are people,'' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.”
D.E. Stevenson

D.E. Stevenson
“had always admired her tremendously but now, quite suddenly, I saw her in a different light: small and pathetic and lonely. She had chosen loneliness because she hated ‘getting involved emotionally’. She was afraid of getting hurt. Freedom was what she wanted but it seemed to me a poor substitute for affection. I thought of all she had told me about the pearls; she couldn’t wear them; she didn’t want to sell them; she hated to shut them up in prison. I”
D.E. Stevenson, Anna and Her Daughters

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