An omnibus edition containing four of the ever-popular "Miss Read" novels about English village school life. Included are: "Fresh from the Country", "The Market Square", "The Howards of Caxley" and "Mrs Pringle". The author, Mrs Dora Saint, was a teacher who started writing after WWII. She has also written a cookery book, Miss Read's Country Cooking, and two autobiographical works, A Fortunate Grandchild and Time Remembered.