One woman's life begins to unravel. One family is pulled into the storm. And two children become caught between love, illness, addiction, and a system trying to decide what happens next.Dissipation: A True Story of Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and a Double Injustice is an unflinching true story of a woman named Hunter and the family who desperately tries to hold on to her as her world begins to fracture.Once vibrant, ambitious, and full of possi...

Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.In this book:Lark RiseOver to CandlefordCandleford Green

In "Still Glides the Stream," Flora Jane Thompson offers a poignant exploration of rural life in early 20th-century England. Through her evocative prose, Thompson captures the rhythms of nature and the intricate relationships within a close-knit community. The narrative unfolds with a gentle pace, reflecting the subtleties of life along the River Ouse, where the environment is both a backdrop and a character in its own right. Rich with vivid imagery and lyrical descriptions, the book exper...

In "Still Glides the Stream," Flora Jane Thompson weaves a poignant tapestry of rural life in early 20th-century England, blending rich, evocative descriptions with a lyrical prose style that mirrors the gentle flow of nature. The narrative unfolds around the lives of the farming community in the fictional countryside, exploring themes of love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time. Through Thompson's keen observations and vivid imagery, readers are immersed in the sensory experiences o...

Still Glides the Stream is Flora Jane Thompson's quietly luminous return to the vanished countryside that also nourished Lark Rise to Candleford. Set around an Oxfordshire river community, the novel traces village affections, rivalries, labor, memory, and social change with an observant realism softened by lyric pastoral feeling. Its style is measured, intimate, and exact: neither sentimental idyll nor harsh naturalism, but an elegiac record of rural England at the moment its older rhythms...

The claustrophobia of Room meets the camaraderie of Yellowjackets with a touch of Picnic at Hanging Rock in this dark, immersive, psychological thriller debut with a speculative/lite-horror edge.Christmas Eve, 1974.As Cyclone Tracy tears through Darwin, four girls disappear into the heart of the outback. No tracks. No bodies. No answers.Decades later, one returns.She claims to be one of the missing. But is...

‘I’m looking for two really trustworthy rabbits and six sensible clear-speaking frogs!’Young Anna Lacey has spent most of her life on a farm in Essex. But her first teaching position carries her to an unattractive, newly constructed suburb where she has to adjust to cramped lodgings, a skinflint landlady, overcrowded classrooms, and eccentric colleagues (‘a rum lot’). She must also adapt some of her idealistic theories of teaching to the realities of her ...

Miss Read looks forward to her retirement - but it doesn't go quite as planned...When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbours.As village life continues as always, Miss Read embarks on a local project and discovers ...

Miss Read's future as headmistress hangs in the balance as the village school is threatened with closure.'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so many--''Animals?' prompted Mr Roberts helpfully.'No, no, not animals,' said Mrs Mawne testily. 'Animals don't go in buses! What I mean is, we won't have it. We'll never let Fairacre school close.'She looked round the ta...

The very first Miss Read novel - set in a charming 1950s English countryside community, perfect nostalgia for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE or Gervase Phinn.'An affectionate, humorous and gently charming chronicle ... sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing' New York TimesFairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and at the heart of the school, its headmistress, Miss Read.Through her discerning e...

The second Fairacre novel, from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.In her first book VILLAGE SCHOOL, Miss Read drew a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country area, a world peopled by the children themselves, Miss Clare the venerable infants teacher, glum Mrs Pringle the cleaner, the vicar and other inhabitants of Fairacre. In VILLAGE DIARY, Miss Read describes the people of Fairacre with the same exactitude, sen...

"Do you know anything about her, Richard?""Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviously well off and very impulsive. . . . She bought the house as if it were-a bun. She bought it straight off without seeing it.""She must be mad!"The arrival of novelist Kate Hardy at the lovely Dower House in Old Quinings, with her staunch ally and housekeeper Martha, has the whole village talking. But Kate is not in fact mad, merely in need of esc...