Storm in the Village — Miss Read

Alarming rumours are circulating in Fairacre.

One bright spring morning two strangers arrive in Hundred-Acre Field, which lies beside Miss Clare's cottage, and the village bush-telegraph begins to buzz. A large housing estate is to be built here and on the downs beyond!

What will Mr. Miller, who has farmed there all his life, think of this? Is it really true that Fairacre School is to close as soon as the new one is built? Protest meetings, culminating in a Public Inquiry, provide a stormy background to the daily round of Miss Read, Mrs. Pringle, Miss Clare and all our Fairacre friends...