The Market Square by Miss Read (1976)

ISBN: 9780140030075 / 0140030077 - The Market Square by Miss Read. Published by Penguin, 1976. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 208 pp.

Dora Jessie Saint MBE née Shafe (born 17 April 1913), best known by the pen name Miss Read.

Round the market square the life of Caxley revolved... from horse-drawn drays to the noisy new motors and the aeroplanes which the young men of Caxley longed to fly, from the coronation of King Edward VII to the last flowering of the Empire, ending on the muddly battlefields of the Somme...

For Sep it was the end of an era - for Bertie and Kathy, the beginning of happiness - and for young Edward, tasting his first glass of wine, there was a world of tomorrows.

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