Download or read book Village Diary written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Miss Read receives a magnificent diary for Christmas instead of the more customary bath salts, she decides she must make good use of it. In each chapter of her diary, Miss Read recounts a month in her life as headmistress of Fairacre School. With kindly humor, she relates all the difficulties and all the enjoyment of living in a small country community. Her jollity lasts even through staff problems, a village decision to marry her off, and a nagging cleaning lady. But when she writes about her younger pupils, that amusement breaks into laughter.