A Peaceful Retirement / read by Sian Phillips

"Fairacre's retired schoolmistress was looking ahead joyfully to an easier way of life with all sorts of future plans, but right from the start of her holiday Miss Read receives lots of advice on how to spend it, then there's also the many requests for her services, and it seems a retirement that's far from peaceful."@en
"When Miss Read's ill health compels her to retire, she imagines days of relaxation and calm. How wrong she was! Firstly a holiday in Florence; then a spell of teaching; acting as agony aunt in domestic difficulties and rewrite the church pamphlet. She then embarks on a project of local history. But it is only when she considers her own crowded career that she begins a new chapter of her life."@en
"Fairacre's retired schoolmistress was looking ahead joyfully to an easier way of life with all sorts of future plans. But right from the start of her holiday, Miss Read receives lots of advice on how to spend it; not least of all from Mrs. Pringle, her morose cleaner. As it turns out it seems a retirement that is farfrom peaceful."@en
"The village schoolmistress, Miss Read, greets retirement with excitement, and settles down to endless lazy days, but her idyll is interrupted by the daily cares of her friends and fellow villagers in this, the latest Miss Read novel."