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A review by karen_unabridged
Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read
3.0
A good choice for winter reading. (There's a Christmas chapter or two but this is mostly a winter story.) I'm reading Miss Read in publication order so this is my 2nd visit to Thrush Green. (So far I prefer Fairacre and its inhabitants.) Mrs. Curdle is gone (although her fair lives on, apparently) but there is a cat named after her that turns up a lot. Which was...interesting, I suppose, if not downright confusing.
Romance is in the air but it's more like "romance." Several matches are made but they're not the heart pounding kind. One is sweet and one is a little more calculated, but funny. None are your usual romantic couples.
Plot? Miss Read books are a lot of things but plot-driven is NOT one of them. There's a statue to be built on the village green (seems odd to do that in the winter, but whatever) and there are various shenanigans, including a serious assault of the teacher that is glossed over a bit. (The "bad guy" is exactly who'd you expect it to be, but it's sad because it seems a lot worse than his usual failures.)
I wanted more Ruth and the young doctor but maybe they'll be featured a bit more in the next Thrush Green book. But that will be a while before I get to it, because Miss Read returned to Fairacre for a long spell before continuing the Thrush Green series.
Romance is in the air but it's more like "romance." Several matches are made but they're not the heart pounding kind. One is sweet and one is a little more calculated, but funny. None are your usual romantic couples.
Plot? Miss Read books are a lot of things but plot-driven is NOT one of them. There's a statue to be built on the village green (seems odd to do that in the winter, but whatever) and there are various shenanigans, including a serious assault of the teacher that is glossed over a bit. (The "bad guy" is exactly who'd you expect it to be, but it's sad because it seems a lot worse than his usual failures.)
I wanted more Ruth and the young doctor but maybe they'll be featured a bit more in the next Thrush Green book. But that will be a while before I get to it, because Miss Read returned to Fairacre for a long spell before continuing the Thrush Green series.