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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
The third novel in the bestselling Fairacre series. On a blustery March day in the village of Fairacre, Miss Clare sees two strangers, 'pacing slowly, side by side, along the edge of Hundred Acre Field which lay on the other side of Miss Clare's garden hedge...' So begins a story which brings all the villagers of Fairacre together, as they face the prospect of developers, who hope to build new houses on the fields adjoining old Mr Miller's farm. Everyone has an opinion - but not everyone is in agreement about the development. Under the watchful gaze of Miss Read, the schoolteacher, we meet old characters and new, from retired teacher Miss Clare and the surly Mrs Pringle, to the new assistant teacher, Miss Jackson - who brings with her problems of her own...
The first three Miss Read novels feature the practical genius of the indomitable schoolteacher and the doings of her colleagues in the Infants' Room and of other residents of Fairacre, Beech Green, and Caxley.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.