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The Darling Buds of May: Inspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh
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‘Home looks nice. Allus does though, don’t it? Perfick’And so the Larkins – Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery – return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening. There, amid the rustic charms of home, they discover a visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty’s inspector of taxes.Mr Charlton is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn’t paid his tax – but nothing’s that simple at the Larkins. Mariette takes a shine to ‘Charley’ – as Pop calls him – and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living: the lusty scents of wild flowers, the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon’s Blood, cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and hot, hot summer nights.In fact, soon Charley can’t see any reason to return to the office at all . . .
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| Weight | 0.1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.4 × 13 × 19.4 cm |
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| Pages | 144 |
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| Year Published | 2006-11-30 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141029676 |
| About The Author | H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. The Darling Buds of May (1958), the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). His works have been translated into sixteen languages. H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in January 1974. |
A pulsing comedy of country manners. A five-alarm blaze of a book. Just about perfick. |
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| Other text | A gently, anarchic wish-fulfilling daydream |
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