Miss Read books

Have read them all. Almost wish I hadn't so I could 'find' them all over again. Alexander McCall Smith is soooo good!

I too adore miss read, I started reading them in the ups when I was 16, they transported me to a life that waS different to my own, I also loved the Yorkshire vet series that the tv series all creatures great and small was based on. Apologies I cant find the exclamation marks on the keyboard of this horrid tablet.

Miss read is a wonderful writer just to start a few lines and your cares seem to drift away

I have battered miss read books in my bookcase and some are too tatty to pass on so I keep them ans carefully read them again and again. There must be a miss read fan club somewhere, btw is miss read still alive, she must be in her 90s is she is.

Jamila wasn't the cleaner Minnie, Mrs. Pringle's niece. She talked about Drick Bogard and so do we now. Loved those books and still re-read them
The Lillian Beckwith books about the Scottish isles are lovely and I like Akenfield by Ronald Blythe

Mary E Pearce wrote some lovely stories - Apple Tree Lean Down, Jack Mercybright, The Land Endures , amongst others. I would have been in my 30s when I read them. I doubt they're available now.

Miss Read died a few years ago.

I love Miss Read too ..Jack Sheffield ..Rebbecca Shaw..Anne Purser..Gervase Phinn a must too for a good chuckle...There is another I have just found but not read but can't find the book now I will look for it I know I put it somewhere!!!!

Iam also a fan of Barbara Pym I have couple out at present. I have possibly already read them. She is a hidden gem of a writer.

I read a lot of Miss Read in my early 20s very gentle and funny if you want an easy read.
Yes the Whiteoaks saga.

What I cannot stand about Mills and Boon is how the women always seem to hand over their lives to their man. No concept at all of feisty independent women. Too much power and control are given away. Mind you its a while now since a read one.

That is not the sort of role model we should be encouraging for todays women.