Record Added: 8/24/2015  A Favorite Book Series The Fairacre Series #6, 10, 12 Setting  England Topic Holidays: Christmas Adult Fiction, Classics Publisher Michael Joseph Ltd ISBN 0718133889 Year 1991 Age Adult Pages 368 Description Printed dustjacket
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A selection of full-length novels and short stories all with a Christmas theme. There are three novels plus six stories from "Over the Gate" and extracts from "Village Diary" and "The Howards of Caxley". Titles Include: - Christmas at Fairacre School (Village Christmas)
- The Christmas Mouse
- No Holly for Miss Quinn
- ...plus individual stories
#6. Village Christmas (1966) {Also have individual book} The Emery family is preparing to celebrate their first Christmas in Fairacre, having moved from London just three months before, and to welcome the birth of their fourth child. When the unexpected happens on Christmas morning, their new neighbors, the elderly Waters sisters, are fortunately nearby to lend a hand.
#10. The Christmas Mouse (1973) {Also have individual book} In the neighboring hamlet of Shepherds Cross lives elderly Mrs. Berry, her widowed daughter, Mary, and Mary’s two little daughters. Mrs Berry has a morbid fear of mice, and when she notices one in her bedroom on Christmas Eve, she decides to sleep downstairs, and it is there that she encounters a young intruder, a runaway named Stephen Amonetti, whom she eventually persuades into returning to his foster parents.
#12. No Holly for Miss Quinn (1976) {Also have individual book} A new resident moves to Fairacre, and to the bafflement of the villages, she insists on keeping herself to herself, declining all offers to become involved in village affairs. Miss Quinn plans to spend a quiet, self-indulgent Christmas on her own, but when her brother, a vicar in a Norfolk village, calls her to ask for help in looking after his three young children when his wife is hospitalized, she cannot refuse. She soon falls into the festive spirit and learns the meaning of sharing a traditional Christmas, and the chance meeting with a past acquaintance not only impacts her future relationship with her new neighbors in Fairacre, but her entire life. |
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Also have green US edition published by Houghton Mifflin, from DI $2.
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