Thrush Green series

A stranger's arrival in the village stirs up ripples of speculation and interest. The village finds itself paying tribute to the stranger's hero, a missionary born and bred in Thrush Green, and the stranger's presence alters the romantic prospects of Miss Dimity Dean.

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglected churchyard doesn't meet with universal approval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someone has returned to the village after an absence of fifty years.

If a visitor stops to visit Thrush Green he will soon find out there is a lot going on.

Shows the little village facing the consequences of a fire that destroyed the rectory, making room for a retirement community and a group of new residents.

Plans for the centenary celebration of Nathaniel Patten's time as a missionary in Africa are merged with a celebration of Thrush Green's own village school.