Tyler's Row — Miss Read

The cottages called Tyler's Row, with their warm thatch and leaded panes, were intended to provide a haven of peace for the Hales.

Sandwiched between the redoubtable Sergeant Burnaby and poisonous Mrs. Fowler, however, they soon found that Fairacre was no outpost of Utopia but an average English village

Ever since Village School, 'Miss Read' has seasoned her chronicles of Fairacre with a dash of sweet-scented acid. In Tyler's Row the mixture is as astringent, the story as beguiling and the characters as varied as usual.