H. E. Bates

Broschiertes Buch

A Little of What You Fancy

Inspiration for the ITV drama The Larkins starring Bradley Walsh

Beschreibung

'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' "No," said Dr Conner. And so after a mild heart-attack - Pop Larkin finds himself off the booze. While Ma tries to find ways around 'doctor's orders', young Primrose is finding her own way round a flustered - Mr Candy.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• The Larkin Family Series
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780141029658
• ISBN-10: 014102965X
• Artikelnr.: 30868898