Winter in Thrush Green（ISBN=9780618884391）

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

Miss Read was a teacher by profession who started writing after the Second World War. In additional to her novels, she has written on educational and country matters, and worked as a script-writer for the BBC. She lives in Berkshire, and was made an MBE for her services to literature.

The Coming of Winter
  I  The Newcomer
  2 Wild Surmise
  3  Miss Fogerty Rises to the Occasion
  4 Plans for a Party
  5 Nelly Tilling,
  6  All Hallows E en
  7  The Newcomer Settles In
  8  Sam Curdle is Observed
PART TWO Christmas at Thrush Green
  9  The Memorial
  10 Albert Piggott is Wooed
  11  Christmas Preparations
  12  The Fur and Feather Whist Drive
  13  Christmas Eve 
  14  Christmas Day
PART THREE The New Year
  15  A Bitter Journey
  16  Snow at Thrush Green
  17  Two Clues
  18  Spring Fever
  19  Albert Piggott is Won
  20  Coming Home