Just lovely. An affair of the heart--the hearts. ( )

The word 'gentle' keeps recurring in my reviews of Miss Read. This one's no exception- it's the sweet but not at all cloying story of how Miss Emily Davis has affected the lives of many current and former students and friends. Miss Emily Davis was a rare gift to the people whose paths she crossed, and not all of them were insensible to this fact. You'll walk away glad to have made her acquaintance yourself. ( )

Like Miss Clare remembers, more of a memoir style than the Fairacre and Thrush Green series. ( )