![]() Miss Read has been the head teacher at the two-room Fairacre village school for five years, long enough to be accepted by the locals as “Miss Read up the School” instead of “that new woman pushing herself forward.” The new school year starts with the usual nervous new students, grim school cleaner Mrs. But plans change when they are joined by Elfrida’s cousin Carrie, recovering from an unhappy love affair, Carrie’s 14-year-old niece Lucy, unwanted by her divorced mother and the grandmother with whom they live, and newly-separated businessman Sam Howard, in the area to restart a woolen mill. ![]() Moving to a house he co-owns in northern Scotland, they decide to ignore Christmas, with its painful memories, and celebrate the Solstice with a lamb chop. Raffish retired actress Elfrida Phipps, still a free spirit at 61, takes on the job of helping her friend Oscar Blundell rebuild his life after he loses his family. ![]()
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