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.
*Time*
A gently, anarchic wish-fulfilling daydream
*The Times*
A perfick piece of entertainment
*New York Times*
A wistful daydream about innocence and happiness
*Spectator*
Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny . . . are essentially English of
the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb
and timeless comedy
*Scotsman*
As funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee's Cider
with Rosie. Don't miss it
*Herald*
They are absolute comfort books
*The Lady*
Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy
match for him in all these qualities
*The Times*
As funny as Evelyn Waugh and as enchanting as Laurie Lee's Cider
with Rosie. Don't miss it
*Herald*
Pop Larkin, Ma and their progeny . . . are essentially English of
the rich and ribald England of Chaucer and Shakespeare. A superb
and timeless comedy
*Scotsman*
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