Gossip from Thrush Green Author:Miss Read The inhabitants are delighted, farmers survey their promising hay fields, garderners buste with packets of seeds as birds flash to and fro. Activity is everywhere. Yet all is not as idyllic as it seems in the unsuspecting village, for change is never far away.
The Thrush Green rectory burns down, Winnie Baily takes in the Young's son while they're away in America for 6 weeks. Ella cooks up strange things to eat, as usual. A wonderful book to read.