How I Met Miss Read

I was working as a shelver at the Urbana Free Library (Urbana, IL) in the early 1990's. One of my tasks was "shelf reading," the process of checking the labels on the spines of the books to make sure they were shelved in proper alphabetical, Dewey order, and reshelving any that were out of order. At this time I was a bit of an Enya fan, and one day I came across a book which bore the same title as one of my favorite Enya songs--Miss Clare Remembers. I was intrigued, but not enough to read the book at that time. Many years later I read one of the "Fairacre" novels--now I can't remember how I decided to pick it up--and I was hooked. From then on, Miss Read's novels have become standard bedtime and comfort reading material for me. I finally did read Miss Clare Remembers. You should read it, and all Miss Read's charming novels, as well.