Miss Read Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 17, 1913 - April 7, 2012
Birthday: April 17
Death: April 7
marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.
topic: Doors, Hands, Funny Things, Back Doors
