Thrush Green - Thrush Green 1: Welcome, Dear Reader to the village of Thrush Green, a chronicle of small-town life that has achieved an almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcome return to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equal measure". It's May Day and the fair has come. For young Paul, just recovered from illness, it's a joy to be allowed out to play; for Ruth, who has returned home nursing a broken heart, the fair is a welcome distraction; For Mrs Curdle, the long standing matriarch of the fair, this year's visit awakens mixed feelings, and a difficulty she doesn't want to face...Winter In Thrush Green - Thrush Green 2: A new excitement comes to the village of Thrush Green when the corner house on the green is taken by Harold Shoosmith, a distinguished bachelor who has chosen the village for his retirement.It's not long before he finds himself enmeshed in village events, and the village's widowed rector finds in Harold a new friend who gives him the courage to end his lonely state.