Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn is the third and final book in the series initiated by The Family from One End Street

The Family from One End Street

The Family From One End Street, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett, is an English children's book. Set in Otwell, a town resembling Lewes, it was published in 1937 by Frederick Muller. It won a Carnegie Medal for best children's book that same year, despite competition which included J. R. R....

(published 1937) and continued with the long-delayed Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street

Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street

Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street is the sequel to The Family from One End Street, an English children's book. Eve Garnett originally wrote this book shortly after the previous instalment had been published in 1937, and it is clearly claimed at one point to be set in 1938, but...

(published 1956). Eve Garnett

Eve Garnett

Eve Garnett was an English author and illustrator. She was educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester...

 wrote it as a period piece, probably set in 1938. It describes Kate Ruggles' summer holiday at the Dew Drop Inn in the fictional village of Upper Cassington, which is probably meant to be in Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

. It was first published by Heinemann in 1962, and first appeared in Puffin Books

Puffin Books

Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

in 1966.