When the Green Woods Laugh
Inspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh
$28.67
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2018
Summary
“There!” Pop said. “There’s the house. There’s Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How’s that strike you? Better than St Paul’s, ain’t it, better than St Paul’s?”
And so Pop Larkin - junk-dealer, family man and Dragon’s Blood connoisseur - manages to sell the nearby crumbling, tumbling country home to city dwellers Mr and Mrs Jerebohm for a pretty bundle of notes. Now he can build his daughter Mariette the pool she’s long been nagging him for.
But the Larkin’s new neighbo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141029689 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141029684 |
| Author: | H.E. Bates |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 97g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 9mm |
| Series: | The Larkin Family Series |
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Critics Review
Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities
They are absolute comfort books … All five titles are being rereleased just in time for summer * 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 *
‘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 *
The Larkins live - these novels please us by escaping definition – - * Guardian *
Like Wodehouse’s Jeeves, Bates’ Larkins must continue in their own delightful milieu - the Kentish countryside – - * New York Times *
About The Author
H.E. Bates
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, the first of the popular Larkin family novels, was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), and Oh! To Be in England (1963).
His works have been translated into sixteen languages. H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in January 1974.
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