These books are charming, gentle, undemanding tales of a two-room village school in post-war England. The stories are punctuated with jumble sales, doctors who make house calls, thatched roof cottages, walks along country lanes, fireside visits with neighbors over tea, etc.
Lovable adults and children and just a few curmudgeons to add spice to the mix. Nothing much happens...but then, that's the point.
Highly recommend 👌

The calm, cultured, faintly ridiculous atmosphere of the "upstairs", where you take late-morning tea-in-bed & dress for dinners; & the frenzied pace of the "downstairs", where cooks plan elaborate meals well in advance, maids scurry around rooms before dawn to light fires, prepare tea, set out clothing; butlers shine shoes, set out newspapers & whiskey; groomsmen ready horses & dogs for the day's hunt.

Set in a 1930s English village, this book is about what happens when a budding author uses her own thinly-veiled town and neighbors as inspiration for her debut novel - and the novel becomes a smash hit!
This was a wonderful recommendation by Arpita @Bagfullofbooks

Mysteries and thrillers can easily rope me in and The Girls on the Train is no exception. It kept me guessing throughout with the curveballs that it constantly throws at the reader. This is a book which keeps you hooked because you NEED to know what happens next!