Fairacre Chronicles 14. When schoolteacher Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong, instead receiving plenty of (unsolicited) advice on how to spend it,  Instead she finds herself as busy and in demand as ever - offered the opportunity to become a secretary, treasurer, librarian, babysitter and even a regular for local radio.  Add a trip to Florence, offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbours and offers of marriage, and it seems that her peaceful retirement has vanished.