9 must-read classics books like Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) by Miss Read

Cover of Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) by Miss Read

Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)

By: Miss Read

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula…

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1. Before Lunch

By: Angela Thirkell

3.58

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If it were in his destiny, which he felt it never would be, to love and be loved, he could imagine a way of love quite different from what he had just seen."

-Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

"Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers."

-Angela Thirkell, Before Lunch

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2. Mrs. Miniver

By: Jan Struther , Greer Garson

3.92

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed m… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person."

-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

"It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's."

-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

"Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye …"

-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

"Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late sum…"

-Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver

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3. The Scent of Water

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.16

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative chi… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?"

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

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4. Jane and Prudence

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reun… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

By: Winifred Watson

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1) by D.E. Stevenson

6. Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Caroline Dering, a young widow, lives in Vittoria Cottage in Ashbridge, a small country town in rur… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Tyler's Row (Fairacre, #9) by Miss Read

7. Tyler's Row (Fairacre, #9)

By: Miss Read

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Miss Read, whose real name is Dora Jessie Saint, has been producing these delightful novels of Engl… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) by Miss Read

8. Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)

By: Miss Read

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula… read more

Similar categories in Miss Read's Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) book and Miss Read's Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

9. Summer Half

By: Angela Thirkell

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The denouement of Philip Winters ill-begotten engagement to featherbrained Rose Birkett is enacted … read more

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10. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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11. Music In The Hills (Dering Family, #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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12. Anna and Her Daughters

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.89

Format: 272 pages,

When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls Helen, Jane and Rosalie are particularly u… read more

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13. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss Buncle, #3)

By: D.E. Stevenson

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surp… read more

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14. The Hurtwood Village Murders (Marius Quin Mystery #2)

By: Benedict Brown

4.37

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A series of threatening letters, a forgotten figure from the past, and a killer out to settle score… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Fletchers End (Bel Lamington #2) by D.E. Stevenson

15. Fletchers End (Bel Lamington #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.25

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

The joys and contentment of newly-wedded life, set against the tranquil beauty of the English count… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Near Neighbours by Molly Clavering

16. Near Neighbours

By: Molly Clavering

4.23

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Dorothea Balfour was nearer seventy than sixty, but there was something childlike about her . … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Twice Round the Clock

By: Billie Houston

3.79

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

“It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock.” Horace Mannin… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

12 best-selling fiction books like Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) by Miss Read

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Elizabeth Fair

4.02

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4.03

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