Tyler’s Row（ISBN=） 英文原版

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.
The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row, with
charming leaded-glass windows and an arched thorn hedge over the
gateway, are supposed to provide a haven of peace for their new
owners, Peter and Diana Hale. They plan to convert the middle two
cottages into one, to create their own rural refuge. But beset by
carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and bills, as well as their
neighboring tenants, the redoubtable Sergeant Barnaby and the sour
Mrs. Fowler, both longtime residents of Tyler’s Row, the couple
soon have cause to ponder their decision. Fairacre is not the
utopia they expect, and the Hales must adapt to ordinary life in a
village full of extraordinary quirks.

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 *-writer
for the BBC. She lives in Berkshire, and was made an MBE for her
services to literature.

Part One Outlook Unsettled
 1 Up For Sale
 2 Prospective Buyers
 3 Local Competitors
 4 Mrs Pringle Smells Trouble
 5 Making a Start
 6 The Problem of Tyler’s Row
Part Two Some Squally Showers
 7 Moving Day
 8 An Exhausting Evening
 9 Callers
 IO Awkward Neighbours
 11 A Village Quiz
 12 A Fateful Day
 13 Dog Trouble

Part Three Settlde With Some Sunshine